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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 a mighty saga of a time and place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust and the struggle for power - the most enthralling reading experience of this or any year.
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TAI-PAN: This is a story that continues the master asian saga storytelling that Clavell started in Shogun. Set in 1841 it tells the story of Dirk Straun Tai-Pan of
Hong Kong. As the leading business man on the island he holds much power and is the object of much envy. The exciting period covered in this story conveys
the excitement, intrigue and danger that filled the lives of those in early 1900 Hong Kong. Another great story by Clavell.
It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidden Chinese Mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler ... Tai-Pan!
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GAI-JIN: This is the last book that Clavell wrote. It matches the high caliber of his other work.
Grand in scope and scale, filled with the richness and passion of two great histories, coming together, Gai-jin is the long-awaited sixth novel in James Clavell's magnificent Asian Saga. Sweeping us back to the enigmatic and elusive land of his best-selling Shogun, he weaves an extraordinary tale of Japan, now newly open to gai-jin - foreigners - and teeming with contradictions as the ancient and the modern meet in a clash of cultures, of nations, of generations.
It is 1862, and in Japan's Foreign Settlement of Yokohama, reverberations from an explosive act of violence will forever alter - and connect - the lives of the major characters. Malcom Struan, at twenty, is heir to the title of tai-pan of the most powerful and bitterly contested English trading company in the Orient, the Noble House. Malcolm's fate, and that of his family's legacy, become inextricably intertwined with that of a beautiful young French woman, Angelique Richard. Desired by many, loved purely and passionately by Malcolm, Angelique will hold the future of the Noble House in her hands.
Intricately interwoven into the story of the struggle for control of the Noble House is a powerful parallel story of the Land of the Gods, Japan, a country ripped apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism as groups of young xenophobic revolutionaries, ronin, attempt to seize the Shogunate and expel the hated gai-jin from Japan. One man, Lord Toranga Yoshi, a direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun, attempts not only to protect the Shogunate, but to user it, and Japan, into the modern age.
Amid the brutality and heroism, the betrayals and the stunning romance, a multilayered, complex story unfolds. Here the dark and erotic world of the pleasure houses - the Ladies of the Willow World, spies, and terrorists - meets the world of pageantry and power - monarches and diplomats. And here East meets West in an inevitable collision of two equally powerful cultures as James Clavell creates a vibrant and authentic portrait of a time that is gone forever .. but of a world not unlike our own.
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NOBLE HOUSE: This book covers the latest period in Clavell's Asia series. The time period is the later part of the 1960's. It is vey interesting and recieves
my highest praise.
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KING RAT: A very interesting tale of WWII prisoners of war and their life in the POW camp. It is a marvel at how ingenious the human mind can be under harsh conditions. And how man will still seek to dominate what he can where he can. An excellent book. An A.
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weakness and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path.
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