Shogun: Book One of the Asian Saga - The book that inspired the multi-Emmy Award

Description: Shogun by James Clavell James Clavells most famous and best-loved novel repackaged for a new generation FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESClavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, youll enjoy it mightily Daily MirrorThis is James Clavells 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 Blackthornes 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.I cant remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Its irresistible, maybe unforgettable. Clavell creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are - New York Times Notes Smart new-cover edition of the epic tour-de-force, reissued alongside Whirlwind and Gai-Jin. "A huge, exotic, blood-stained canvas" Guardian. Author Biography James Clavell, the son of a Royal Navy family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore. It was on this experience that his bestselling novel KING RAT was based. He maintained this oriental interest in his other great works: TAI-PAN, SHOGUN, NOBLE HOUSE and GAI JIN. Review My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year . . . It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more . . . Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, youll enjoy it mightily - Daily MirrorSHOGUN 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 - GuardianUnquestionably the best historical novel of its kind since Anthony Adverse - Los Angeles TimesI cant remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Its irresistable, maybe unforgettable. Clavell ... creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are - New York TimesMr Clavell tells his story brilliantly - The TimesOne of the great page turners of all time - Good Book Guide Promotional James Clavells most famous and best-loved novel repackaged for a new generation Kirkus US Review In Clavells last whopper, Tai-pan, the hero became tai-pan (supreme ruler) of Hong Kong following Englands victory in the first Opium War. Clavells new hero, John Blackthorne, a giant Englishman, arrives in 17th century Japan in search of riches and becomes the right arm of the warlord Toranaga who is even more powerful than the Emperor. Superhumanly self-confident (and so sexually overendowed that the ladies who bathe him can die content at having seen the worlds most sublime member), Blackthorne attempts to break Portugals hold on Japan and encourage trade with Elizabeth Is merchants. He is a barbarian not only to the Japanese but also to Portuguese Catholics, who want him dispatched to a non-papist hell. The novel begins on a note of maelstrom-and-tempest ("Piss on you, storm! Blackthorne raged. Get your dung-eating hands off my ship!") and teems for about 900 pages of relentless lopped heads, severed torsos, assassins, intrigue, war, tragic love, over-refined sex, excrement, torture, high honor, ritual suicide, hot baths and breathless haikus. As in Tai-pan, the carefully researched material on feudal Oriental money matters seems to he Clavells real interest, along with the megalomania of personal and political power. After Blackthorne has saved Toranagas life three times, he is elevated to samurai status, given a fief and made a chief defender of the empire. Meanwhile, his highborn Japanese love (a Catholic convert and adulteress) teaches him "inner harmony" as he grows ever more Eastern. With Toranaga as shogun (military dictator), the book ends with the open possibility of a forthcoming sequel. Engrossing, predictable and surely sellable. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description This is James Clavells 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 Blackthornes rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country. Review Quote 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 Promotional "Headline" James Clavells most famous and best-loved novel repackaged for a new generation Details ISBN0340766166 Author James Clavell Pages 1136 Year 1999 ISBN-10 0340766166 ISBN-13 9780340766163 Format Paperback Imprint Hodder Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1924 Media Book Language English Series The Asian Saga Publication Date 1999-12-02 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton UK Release Date 1999-12-02 AU Release Date 1999-12-02 NZ Release Date 1999-12-02 Illustrations None Audience General Subtitle Book One of the Asian Saga - The book that inspired the multi-Emmy Award-winning TV show We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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