It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year. One of the great page turners of all time * Good Book Guide *
Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly * The Times * creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are * New York Times * I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Unquestionably the best historical novel of its kind since Anthony Adverse * Los Angeles Times * SHOGUN is a huge exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteenth century but still medieval Japan, rival warlords and proselytising Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with the death-with and a shipwrecked Elizabethan * Guardian * Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily * Daily Mirror * “Exciting, totally absorbing.be prepared for late nights, meals unlasting, buisness unattended.My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year. an extraordinary performance.” - Publishers Weekly “A tale surging with action, intrigue and love.
a climactic human story.” - Los Angeles Times “Adventure and action, the suspense of danger, shocking touching human relationships. It’s not only something you read-you live it.” - New York Times Book Review “I can’t remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Shogun: The Epic Novel of Japan James Clavell Dell, 1986 - Fiction - 1152 pages 81 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified A. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern.
In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. The principal figures are John Blackthorne, whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun-the Supreme Military Dictator-and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterly and farsighted leadership and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life.
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