Shogun
The Epic Novel of Japan (Asian Saga, book 1)
by James Clavell
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Japan and Fiction.
The multimillioncopy bestselling historical novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world.After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenthcentury Japan, a land where the ...
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“Puts everything in a proper frame of reference for me. What that guy is going through, it like puts your day in perspective.”
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