Gaijin [Kindle Edition]

Remittance Girl (Author)

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When Jennifer left the cold and damp of London for the sparkle and bustle of Tokyo, she imagined she'd find a world full of cherry blossom festivals, ancient tea ceremonies and Geishas. What she got instead was a cramped, shared apartment, harassment on the subway and a mind-numbing job as a hostess at the Blonde Chick Bar in Roppongi.

With a single, unintentional insult all that changed. She wakes up to find that she has been kidnapped by Shindo: a sadistic Yakuza demi-god who doesn't take his loss of face easily. Caught between his hatred of all things foreign and a growing obsession with this blonde gaijin, he is determined to make her pay for her rejection in sadistic and degrading ways.

`A woman's lot is to endure,' says the fox spirit in her dreams, but Jennifer wonders whether there are indeed fates worse than death. Little by little, she finds out.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 162 KB
• Print Length: 61 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Republica Press (January 23, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0036OSBFI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,488 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Remittance Girl is the pen name of a Canadian writer who inherited and then squandered the talents of both her mother, the composer, and her father, the writer. She produced her first piece of erotic fiction at the venerable age of 36.

Born in Toronto, Remittance Girl spent her childhood at bullfights and in Catholic churches in Madrid, Spain. Her adolescence passed locked away in a selection of chilly boarding schools in the south of England. In her early twenties, she was a vocalist in a number of alternative bands. These experiences proved to be an excellent recipe for the formation of a rather perverse imagination.

The persona of Remittance Girl was born on the web in 1998 when she moved to Southeast Asia and began writing in earnest. As a perpetual expatriate, her stories often take the point of view of an outsider looking in. They examine eroticism in the face of personal and moral dilemma, and cultural disorientation. The express purpose of the work is to both arouse and disturb, often at the same time.

Remittance Girl's influences are broad in scope: from the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca, the novels of Jane Austen and Kobo Abe, the music of Erik Satie and Metallica, to the films of Ridley Scott and the murky deviance of Japanese hardcore animation.

Her short stories have been published in M. Christian & S. Vivant's 'Garden of the Perverse', Lisabet Sarai's 'Cream', Violet Blue's 'Girls on Top', D.L. King's 'The Sweetest Kiss' and M. Jakubowski's upcoming 'Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Vol. 9', among others. Three of her books, 'Gaijin', 'The Waiting Room' and 'The Splinter', are available through Republica Press. An anthology of her short stories is available: 'Remittance Girl' from Coming Together Press.

Remittance Girl now lives in a house with a giant mango tree in the garden and a cat named 'seven'. She writes, teaches, and grows orchids.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lyrical and hot!, March 20, 2010

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Angela Caperton "Eclectic Erotica" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gaijin (Kindle Edition)

I've been fortunate to read a lot of Remittance Girl's works and have always been impressed. GAIJIN is no exception. This is erotica that challenges the senses and feeds the imagination with the beauty of the prose. Remittance Girl has a true gift with words, and this story, while raw with stark portrayals, also sings with unabashed beauty as we follow Jennifer through the trials put to her in modern day Japan at the hands of a brutal, yet sometimes tender, Yakuza boss. This is not romance, but there is no question that it is emotional and very, very hot.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting tale that you can't put down....., May 14, 2010

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Sunny - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gaijin (Kindle Edition)

This is a very interesting short story! It is a haunting tale that will leave you thinking about it days after you read it. It is about an English girl that has moved to Japan. She worked at this entertainment restaurant that was suppose to entertain Japanese business men (I think like an "American Hooters" where girls would serve them and entertain them, with flirting but that's all - I think). Anyways, she was kidnapped and raped by a drug lord because she had the audacity to ignore him at the place that she worked at. This made him furious because he wanted her......so he took her and held her against her will.

The villain kept her by force and raped her many times. He seemed very fascinated with her but he hated her on some level because she was foreign. Just when you wanted him dead, he would start being really nice - then mean - then nice. Then you would kind of start likening him and then you would realize that he was a very complex man, who I think was maybe a bit bipolar.

I wasn't exactly sure how I felt about the relationship that transpired in the book. I kept wondering while I was reading the book - how I wanted it to end. I was very conflicted by it. I didn't know if I wanted them to fall in love or if I wished that she would escape. I think I started developing Stockholm syndrome myself.

The sex was very hot and I felt a lot of different emotions in this book. The ending will shock you and I still don't know how I feel about that yet but you will have to read the book to see how you feel. It was definitely worth the money.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Story, May 10, 2010

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This review is from: Gaijin (Kindle Edition)

Geijin is a story about kidnapping & rape at it's core and is set in Japan where we've heard these stories in real life. Japan holds a facination for us romantically and the main character is no different. But she comes to understand a more harsh reality as she comes face to face with her own illusions about Japan. I love what the author does with his cock - she knows what makes for great sex and it was incredible. Whether you are looking for a well told story or great sex you won't be disappointed...this is one of those books that I wish I had in my library and would buy in paperback if it were available. If anyone does read it and wants to chat about it I'm on Twitter @fallendepths - I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Another book I've enjoyed from this author is The Waiting Room

If you liked this one, you'll also like Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas. These are similar stories with different endings.Comfort Food