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Occur Jazz-Age NY and Hollywood in the Thirties, Taking Genji is a noir thriller seen from the strange perspective of a man named Jean-Yves LeFouet. As an adolescent, Jean-Yves falls off a ladder, after being distracted by the perception of his girlfriend kissing another person, and the incident leaves him hollow-hearted and almost blinded by daylight. On the other hand, his night perspective becomes good. He soon discovers he's suitable to a variety of shady careers. His first dimly lit career path starts up one nights when bootleggers hijack him and his truck. After he drives them white-knuckled in the dark - with no headlights - they realize he's just the wheelman they want. They recommend his abilities to the Wall membrane Block broker laundering their money, who introduces Jean-Yves to one of the dark arts of Wall membrane Street - forward working. The Bull Market and outrageous evenings end abruptly with the Crash of '29, when the tough customers aren't amused, and Jean-Yves has to skip town. You will want to try LA? The dancer he wooed in NY, whom he let slide through his fingertips, is wanting to break right into the talkies. He detects work there as a chauffeur, providing scripts at night for a hyphenate-scoundrel, a British isles director purpose on making an erotic film based on the world's first book - written 1,000 years ago by a female - The Tale of Genji. Jean-Yves detects himself increasingly hard-pressed to get around the hairpin converts in Hollywood, including his girlfriend's reappearance, especially after having attained the lovely bookseller who supplies his company with copies of Genji, the Japanese basic. Lively and literate, this female from Shanghai may prove to be his undoing... or his salvation.
