![]() ![]() ![]() She has specialized in Japanese men ever since, at the age of 15, she saw Toshiro Mifune in “Rashomon.” A gentler soul than Jane, Toshi was nevertheless sexually imprinted in much the same way: He traces his own obsession with foreign women back to his 10th year, when he and his mother, passing a thermos of green tea between them, sat spellbound before the image of Audrey Hepburn in “Roman Holiday.” Toshi is himself trying without much success to get out of a passionate mess with his lunatic, arsonist English conversation teacher, Jane Borden (“like Lizzy who chopped up her father with an ax,” she explains cheerfully). Paul’s friend Toshi, the young Japanese protagonist of “Audrey Hepburn’s Neck,” has no choice but to accept the American’s take on the irrationality of human attraction-and its far-reaching consequences. ![]() “A photograph of Yukio Mishima in a loincloth. What was the pivotal event, the thing that changed the direction of my entire life, that carried me halfway around the world?,” asks Paul, a gay American living in the vibrant Japan of Alan Brown’s first novel. ![]()
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