"SAYONARA means good-bye..."

SAYONARA is James Michener's great novel of the meeting of East and West-the poignant and deeply moving story of an American officer, and the exquisite Japanese woman who taught him a different meaning of love.

"For women in love there could be no garment more entrancing than the kimono. As I watched Hana-Ogi I knew that in the future, when even the memory of our occupation has grown dim, a quarter of a million American men will love all women more for having tenderly watched some golden-skinned girl fold herself into the shimmering beauty of kimono.

In memory of a her feminine grace all women will forever seem more feminine."

SAYONARA has been made into a motion picture starring MARLON BRANDO.