Jonathan Zacsh reviewed Shogun: a novel of Japan by James Clavell
long, entertaining - want to read the next one now
5 stars
Listened to the audiobook. Really entertaining, but dark story.
Hardcover, 802 pages
English language
Published Jan. 21, 1980 by Atheneum.
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 an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition, lust, and the struggle for power.
James Clavell's Shōgun is a modern classic, a masterpiece of historical fiction that will continue to endure for decades to come.
Listened to the audiobook. Really entertaining, but dark story.