All as civil war looms over the fragile country.

Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world. This is James Clavell's tour-de-force an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village. Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Grand in scope and scale, filled with the richness and passion of history, Shgun is a classic novel of Japana vibrant and authentic portrait of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern.

Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world. Set in Japan in the year 1600, Shgun is the earliest book in James Clavell’s magnificent Asian Saga.

Shōgun by James Clavell