Tears of the Sun is a story of thwarted passion, manipulation and intrigue that sweeps across three continents and three generations. Beginning in Tokyo, 1921, with the fateful meeting of high-born Japanese beauty, Hiroko Sen and Boy Baillieu, an American/Hawaiian architect, their marriage unleashes a series of events that link Japanese, Australian and American families, taking them from Pearl Harbor and the atomic explosion at Hiroshima, to Northern Australia, and later, to Vietnam.It's the beginning of a spiritual journey for Hiroko, and the forced separation from her young son Satoshi becomes a touchstone for the betrayals, love affairs and untimely deaths that unfold in the following years.A passionate novel about the search for love and sense of belonging in a world torn apart by war and rivalry, Tears of the Sun explores the meeting of two cultures . of ordinary people thrown into extraordinary situations and the repercussions on the lives of its characters through the machinations of the Japanese Yakuza.