Perhaps it was the author’s Hong Kong novel Tai-Pan…James Clavell breathes “ Shōgun is irresistible…I can’t remember when a novel has seized my Huge panorama…but you won’t want it shorter by one sentence.” Cosmopolitan Clavell’s work is rightly positioned among the must-read historical fiction classics.” Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel and The Force “An epic novel that cuts bloodred deep into the beating heart of the timeless quest for power.
A riveting must-read.” Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author This epic story epitomizes the will to battle fiercely despite impossible odds. James Clavell’s Sh ō gun draws you in and never lets you go. “An utterly engrossing classic that still thrills to this day. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shōgun is, as the New York Times put it, “…not only something you read-you live it.” Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shōgun. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion.
Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shōgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellĪfter Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen-Nippon.
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