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Titles in this setshoguntai-pangai-jinking ratnoble housewhirlwindthe art of war condition: newformat: paperbackpublisher: hodder & stoughtonage range: adult overviewimmerse yourself in one of the most celebrated sagas in modern fiction with this seven-book paperback collection bringing together james clavell's complete asian saga alongside his acclaimed annotated edition of sun tzu's the art of war. Spanning feudal japan, colonial hong kong, wartime singapore and revolutionary iran, these interlinked epics follow generations of traders, samurai, prisoners and pilots caught between east and west. A must-own set for lovers of sweeping historical fiction. About the booksjames clavell's asian saga is a landmark of historical fiction, tracing centuries of east-west encounter through six interconnected novels. Shogun opens the saga with pilot-major john blackthorne's shipwreck on the shores of feudal japan and his extraordinary rise from reviled outsider to trusted samurai advisor amid looming civil war. Tai-pan moves forward to the founding of hong kong in the 1840s, following ruthless trader dirk struan's fight to build a lasting dynasty. Gai-jin returns to japan in 1862, as the shogunate crumbles and malcolm struan battles to secure his own future and the noble house's fortunes. King rat, set in the notorious changi pow camp, is a gripping tale of survival drawn from clavell's own wartime experience. Noble house leaps a century on, plunging hong kong's oldest tra...
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