![]() ![]() It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year. ![]() One of the great page turners of all time * Good Book Guide * ![]() Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly * The Times * In essence, Shogun dramatized the tale of how an Englishman helped an ambitious Japanese leader launch a dynasty that lasted for another 260 years. Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are * New York Times * I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Unquestionably the best historical novel of its kind since Anthony Adverse * Los Angeles Times * SHOGUN is a huge exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteenth century but still medieval Japan, rival warlords and proselytising Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with the death-with and a shipwrecked Elizabethan * Guardian * Shogun was a sensation in the mid-to-late 1970s and it was easy to see why given the immersive canvas painted throughout the book. Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily * Daily Mirror * And clean prose that's more interested in telling the story than trying to convince you what a great writer the author is. ![]() Long and transporting, makes you feel like you're sinking deep into another world, and a great story and characters. It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. Shogun is exactly what I want a novel to be. ![]()
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