A Girl Named Tamiko by Ronald Kirkbride. This is a case where the movie version is
better than the book. Ivan Balin is a man without a country. Born in China, his
father was Russian, his mother Chinese; he escaped to Japan when the communist
took control of China. He works as a photographer, but dreams of immigrating to
America. A racist, he hates the Japanese, and the Americans will have little to
do with him. Then the world collapses around him when he meets Tamiko, a
Japanese woman of high society, who sees through his racial hatred. Although a
pretty good story, it doesn’t come close to The World of Susie Wong, and in
truth, the 1962 movie version starring Lawrence Harvey and France Nuyen was much
better than the book.
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