THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CLASSIC SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES'Clavell never puts a foot wrong...Get it,read it,you'll enjoy it mightily'DAILY MIRRORThis 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 irresistable,maybe unforgettable. Clavell creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are'NEW YORK TIMES
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Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9780340766163Number of pages: 1136Weight: 750 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 56 mm
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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,you'll enjoy it mightilySHOGUN 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 ElizabethanSHOGUN 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 ElizabethanUnquestionably the best historical novel of its kind since Anthony AdverseI can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. It's irresistable,maybe unforgettable. Clavell...creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you areMr Clavell tells his story brilliantlyOne of the great page turners of all timeOne of the great page turners of all timeI can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. It's irresistable,maybe unforgettable. Clavell...creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you areMy 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,you'll enjoy it mightilyMr Clavell tells his story brilliantly
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