Shogun - New Edition

Zusatztext Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly Informationen zum Autor 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. Clavell lived for many years in Vancouver and Los Angeles, before settling in Switzerland, where he died in 1994. Klappentext NOW A MAJOR GOLDEN GLOBE, BAFTA AND EMMY-WINNING TV SERIES 'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' Daily Mirror 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. 'I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. It's irresistible, maybe unforgettable. Clavell creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are' - New York Times Vorwort James Clavell's most famous and best-loved novel repackaged for a new generation Zusammenfassung James Clavell's most famous and best-loved novel repackaged for a new generation

Product details

• Authors: James Clavell
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.12.1999
• EAN: 9780340766163
• ISBN: 978-0-340-76616-3
• No. of pages: 1136
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 52 mm
• Series: Asian Saga; Asian Saga
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Generational sagas, Ancient Sagas and epics, Historical states and empires: Asia, c 1573 to 1600 (Japanese Azuchi Momoyama period), c 1392 to 1573 (Japanese Muromachi period)