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Asian Saga: Book 1

Shōgun (1975) (edit title/settings)

A Novel of Japan

by James Clavell (Author) (edit contributors)

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An explorer in seventeenth-century Japan, ambitious Englishman John Blackthorne encounters the powerful and power-hungry Lord Toranaga and the Catholic convert Lady Mariko when his ship is wrecked off the coast, leaving only him and a small number of the crew alive. A Pilot for his ship... read more

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  • “I didn’t know if you wanted his head, or his head on his body seeing he was a barbarian, so I brought the body with the head still on.”
  • “How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable – all at the same time?”
  • “We have a saying that time has no single measure, that time can be like frost or lightning or a tear or siege or storm or sunset, or even like a rock.”
  • “Why is it the female hawk, the falcon, is always bigger and faster and stronger than the male, always better than the male?”
  • “Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.”
  • “Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing”
  • “Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life”
  • “How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.”
  • “I am responsible for me.”
    Mariko
  • “I expect no apology. You've your way, I've mine.”
    Blackthorne

Setting & Locations edit see section history

Novel takes place in Japan

First Sentence edit see section history

The gale tore at him and he felt its bite deep within and he knew that if they did not make landfall in three days they would all be dead.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 6 in Asian Saga. (standard series)

Followed by Tai-Pan.

This is book 119 of 200 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)
This book is in Big Fat Books. (community list)
This is book 9 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1975. (authoritative list)
This is book 63 of 99 in NPR's Top 100 Killer Thriller. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. James Clavell (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Atheneum
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1975
ISBN: 0689105657
Page Count: 802

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Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3553.L365 S5 1975
  • Dewey: 823.914

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Movie Connections edit see section history

  • Shogun (1980) (IMDb): TV mini-series staring Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, and Yôko Shimada

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  • Fiji
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  • Last of the Zinja (Shike, Book 2)
  • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Books That Cite This Book edit see section history

   
  • Japan Dreams: notes from an unreal country

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