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Shōgun (The Asian Saga)

★★★★

8.4

James Clavell・・Ended

Updated: December 12, 2023

Content length: 1312 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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FX/Hulu’s Shōgun has won nineteen Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, and four Critics Choice Awards, among many other accolades. The most talked about and awarded series on television. Read the book that started it all! The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen: Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.

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🌟 Editor’s Pick — Why It Belongs on Your Shelf

James Clavell’s Shōgun is that rare historical epic that reads like a thriller: political chess in 1600 Japan, a culture-clash love story, and a navigator (John Blackthorne) loosely modeled on real English samurai William Adams, facing off amid Toranaga’s rise toward the shogunate. It’s immersive, propulsive, and rooted in history without feeling like homework.
This Complete Novel hardcover from Blackstone (published Dec 12, 2023) gives you the unabridged saga in one handsome, 1,300-plus-page volume—built for deep, winter-evening reading and lifelong re-reads. If the award-sweeping FX/Hulu series made you curious, this is the definitive way to experience the story—critics have it at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, with record-breaking 18 Emmys (2024) and big wins at the 2025 Golden Globes.

At a glance: sweeping political intrigue + forbidden romance; richly researched but page-turning; beautiful one-volume hardcover companion to the hit series.