The Three Pleasures, Terry Watada
The Three Pleasures, Terry Watada
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The Three Pleasures

Author: Terry Watada

Narrator: Yuta Takenaka

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/15/2020


Synopsis

In 1940s Vancouver the Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building. The RCMP are rounding up “suspicious” young men, fishing boats and property are being seized, and internment camps are only months away. Daniel Sugiura, a young reporter for the New Canadian, the only Japanese-Canadian newspaper allowed to keep publishing during the war, reveals the stories of members of Vancouver’s Japanese community in the midst of war: Morii Etsuji, the Black Dragon boss, who controls the kind of pleasure men pay for — gambling, drink and prostitution; Watanabe Etsuo, Secretary of the Steveston Fishermen’s Association who makes a deal with the devil to save his loved ones; and Etsu Kaga, a Ganbariya of the Yamato Damashii Group and a Japanese nationalist whose obsession with the Emperor becomes destructive to himself and all involved with him. The Three Pleasures is an intimate and passionate novel that takes a deep look at a terrifying and painful period in Canada’s history. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country’s greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Buffyisbest on August 12, 2024

"Matsumiya was lucky to die now." "Why?" "He won't have to go through what's coming." Terry Watada breathes life into the unspoken history of the expulsion of Japanese-Canadian citizens from the West Coast of Canada. It's easy to think that the events in this book happened long ago as part of our dark......more

Goodreads review by Ciska on August 01, 2022

This book did not really work for me. I think it would have worked better on paper but I listened to the audiobook. And got confused at points. The subject is very interesting though. The treatment of the citizens with a Japanese background in Canada during WW2. We are talking about people who had C......more