I recommend this book to anyone wanting a good read. The characters we meet are unforgettable. James Clavell's Shogun is a sea adventure and a love story. The vividness of Japan through Clavell's eyes is also seen through our eyes. The narrative comes alive throughout the book, as words turn to pictures. Each custom we see as weird, the native Japanese see as a part of life, and so we are with Yabu when he decapitates a man. In Shogun, the author introduces us to Japanese history and Japanese culture. The tale centers around three definitive people: the Englishman, John Blackthorne, whose ship crashed on an island the powerful Japanese warlord Toranaga, who wants to learn more about the white-skinned stranger and where he came from and the beautiful woman, Mariko, torn between two different men, each with different meanings of love and of life. Set in the Japanese islands during the 1600s, the reader meets an ensemble of characters, each distinguished from the other. Although the book is over a thousand pages, I can guarantee that once begun, it will be hard to put down. Shogun, James Clavell's 1975 best-selling novel about medieval Japan, is a story not to be missed. Blackstone Publishing, Fiction - 1152 pages.
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