'Exciting, totally absorbing.Be prepared for late nights, meals untasted, business unattended.'- 'Philadelphia Inquirer' A riveting must-read.'- 'Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author' This epic story epitomizes the will to battle fiercely despite impossible odds. James Clavell's Sh ō gun draws you in and never lets you go. 'An utterly engrossing classic that still thrills to this day.

Clavell's work is rightly positioned among the must-read historical fiction classics.' - 'Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel and The Force' 'An epic novel that cuts bloodred deep into the beating heart of the timeless quest for power. 'Adventure, intrigue, ath, bloodshed, and sex.Reader, you'll love it!'- 'Library Journal'

'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 .An extraordinary performance.'- 'Publishers Weekly' 'A colossal work in every way.A huge panorama.but you won't want it shorter by one sentence.'- 'Cosmopolitan' Yet it's not only something that you read-you live it.People, customs, settings, needs, and desires all become so enveloping you forget who and where you are.'- 'New York Times Book Review' It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shōgun once having opened it. Perhaps it was the author's Hong Kong novel Tai-Pan.James Clavell breathes narrative. ' Shōgun is irresistible.I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Sh ō gun is, as the New York Times put it, '.not only something you read-you live it.' Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Sh ō gun. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Sh ō gun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne's loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen-Nippon.

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