โ Scribed by James Clavell
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_The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House...the direct __ descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern __ age...a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire ... Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners , gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan--an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions....
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