![]() ![]() Shogun is a book which once you pick up, can’t be put down until you finish. It has an adventurous vibe to it, that makes for a scintillating read. It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. The novel is highly effective in providing a deep insight into Japanese culture without becoming a historical research project. My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year. One of the great page turners of all time * Good Book Guide * Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly * The Times * Read more Print length 1152 pages Language English Publisher Dell Publication date Sept. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power. ![]() creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are * New York Times * A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. ![]() I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Unquestionably the best historical novel of its kind since Anthony Adverse * Los Angeles Times * 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 * Guardian * Engrossing, predictable and surely sellable. Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily * Daily Mirror * With Toranaga as shogun (military dictator), the book ends with the open possibility of a forthcoming sequel. It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. ![]()
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