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Gai-Jin [the epic novel of the birth of Modern Japan]
The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shōgun, battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire--their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, and torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans, and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan--an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.
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- "The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shōgun, battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire--their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, and torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans, and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan--an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions."@en
- "Clavell sweeps readers back to Japan in the 1860s, where Malcolm Struan, heir to the title of Tai-Pan meets a beautiful young French woman who will alter the Noble House legacy."@en
- "The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun, battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young Frenchwoman forever torn between ambition and desire--their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, and torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans, and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan--an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions."@en
- "The second volume in Clavell's Shogun quartet was a 13-week Publisher's weekly bestseller. Clavell sweeps readers back to Japan in the 1860s, where Malcolm Struan, heir to the title of Tai-Pan meets a beautiful young French woman who will alter the Noble House legacy."@en
- "It is 1862, Japan is a land in chaos. The power of the Shogun is waning as rival factions fight for supremacy. Into this maelstrom come the gai-jin, hated foreigners, arrogantly certain of their own superiority, who watch and wait - ready to sell anything and everything."@en
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