Shogun: A Novel of Japan (Asian Saga) - James Clavell
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Shogun: A Novel of Japan (Asian Saga)
James Clavell
Synopsis "Shogun: A Novel of Japan (Asian Saga)"
SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES • A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power.Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. 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. 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. In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern.Praise for Shogun“I can’t remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. . . . It’s not only something you read—you live it.”—New York Times Book Review “Adventure and action, the suspense of danger, shocking touching human relationships . . . a climactic human story.”—Los Angeles Times “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 unlasting, buisness unattended.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
(Sydney, Australia, 1921 - Vevey, Suiza, 1994) Es conocido como el autor más vendido de novelas épicas e históricas ("Tai Pan", "Shogun" "Noble House"), y como guionista y director en los EE. UU. a partir de 1953. Además, fue director y productor. En 1963 se naturalizó ciudadano de los Estados Unidos. Clavell vivió muchos años en Vancouver y Los Ángeles, antes de establecerse en Suiza, donde falleció en 1994. Aunque escribió los guiones de una serie de películas aclamadas, es más conocido por las novelas épicas de su Asian Saga.
