05189cam a2200961 4500 589225600 TxAuBib 20220723120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307490896 0307490890 2f7cf788-e2af-4c8a-b44b-78738a072fd2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 212007 OverDrive (Product ID) 28528 28528 TxAuBib Clavell, James. Shogun [Libby]. Random House Publishing Group, 2009. English. Culture shock. Asia. politics. honor. War. Historical. romance. explorers. historical novel. British. culture. Shogun. japanese. Bushido. Japan. sailors. Saga. Thrillers. American. Religion. love story. suspense. Asian. Epic. women. 20th Century. Historical Fiction. Drama. Classics. England. Adventure. jesuits. samurai. Far East. ships. sailing. History. exploration. literature. British Literature . Japanese culture. historical novels. fathers day. feudal japan. asian saga. james clavell. classic books. dad books. james clavell books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3011kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power. Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell's masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love. The principal figures are John Blackthorne, whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterly and farsighted leadership; and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder. In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern. Praise for Shogun "I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. . . . It's not only something you read—you live it."—New York Times Book Review "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 dramatic . . . stunning . . . savage . . . beautiful . . . an extraordinary performance."—Publishers Weekly "Exciting, totally absorbing...be prepared for late nights, meals unlasting, buisness unattended."—Philadelphia Inquirer. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-23 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/2F7/CF7/88/Shogun9780307490896.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2F7CF788-E2AF-4C8A-B44B-78738A072FD2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/2F7/CF7/88/Shogun9780307490896.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2F7CF788-E2AF-4C8A-B44B-78738A072FD2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXBVM