Gai-Jin
Books | Fiction / Historical / General
3.8
James Clavell
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 French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, 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 latest 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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Author
James Clavell
Pages
1248
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2009-07-16
ISBN
0307485331 9780307485335
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Gai-Jin by James Clavell
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The political intrigue and inner workings in trade in Japan may not sound amusing to some (it wasn't to me either) but throw in a generational feud, desperate romance and really well written characters with real world (this happened in real life!) drama and you've got a hit! It's worth every page! The historical fiction of the century so far, each book better and better with more added weight, more world gain and loss and more insight into a past little known."
Sarah