โ Scribed by James Clavell
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This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.
Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the hights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.
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''Shogun is irresistible . . . I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Perhaps it was the author's Hong Kong novel Tai-Pan . . . James Clavell breathes narrative. It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shogun once having opened it. Yet it's not only something that you read - you live it . . . People, customs, settings, needs, and desires all become so enveloping you forget who and where you are.'' --New York Times Book Review
''A colossal work in every way . . . a huge panorama . . . but you won't want it shorter by one sentence.'' --Cosmopolitan
''A tale surging with action, intrigue and love . . . a huge cast . . . vast and dramatic . . . stunning . . . savage . . . beautiful . . . an extraordinary performance.'' --Publishers Weekly
''Exciting, totally absorbing . . . be prepared for late nights, meals untasted, business unattended.'' --Philadelphia Inquirer
''Adventure and action, the suspense of danger, shocking, touching human relationships . . . A climactic human story.'' --Los Angeles Times
''One of those books that blots up vacations and imperils marriages because it simply will not let the reader go.'' --Washington Post
''Adventure, intrigue, love . . . death, bloodshed, and sex . . . you'll love it!'' --Library Journal
A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust and the struggle for power.
"Superbly crafted. . .grips the reader like a riptide. . .gets the juices flowing!"--Washington Star.
"Exciting, totally absorbing. . .be prepared for late nights, meals unlasting, buisness unattended. . ."--Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Adventure and action, the suspense of danger, shocking, touching human relationships. . .a climactic human story."--Los Angeles Times.
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