by James Clavell · N/a · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783426006535
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«Shogun. Der Roman Japans» is the historical novel by James Clavell, published by Knaur in paperback (958 pages, in German).
The novel, set in seventeenth-century Japan, follows the English navigator John Blackthorne, who is shipwrecked and finds himself caught up in the struggles between feudal lords and samurai. Amid the machinations of the daimyo Toranaga and the help of the aristocrat Mariko, the foreigner tries to understand a culture marked by honour and intrigue in order to survive.
Third instalment of James Clavell's Asian Saga; the original, Shōgun, was published in 1975. The German translation is by Werner Peterich.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction seeking an extensive narrative of political intrigue and cultural clash in feudal Japan.
Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, known as James Clavell, was a British and American writer, filmmaker and a British Army officer during the Second World War. He is best known for his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television and film adaptations.
