Improbable Rendezvous

The miraculous survival of a Japanese midget submariner in 1942 and his internment on an idyllic offshore island has profound consequences, even 64 years later . . . when bestselling Japanese novelist Hiraku Makimura lands in Sydney on a literary junket. As in 1942 not everything goes according to plan. In fact his short stay Down Under turns into a seriously surreal ordeal. Even the attentive hotel receptionist proves to be a handful while a more mature woman with her own skeletons in the cupboard leads the overseas visitor into the murky depths of the submerged past . . . an encounter that will rock him to the core of his being.