Gai-Jin: The Epic Novel of the Birth of Modern Japan

James Clavell

Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2009 - Fiction - 1092 pages

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire…Their lives intertwine in an exotic land newly open to foreigners, gai-jin, torn apart by greed, idealism, and terrorism. Their passions mingle with monarchs and diplomats, assassins, courtesans and spies. Their fates collide in James Clavell's latest masterpiece set in nineteenth-century Japan—an unforgettable epic seething with betrayal and secrets, brutality and heroism, love and forbidden passions.…

About the author

James Clavell, who died in 1994, was a screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although he wrote the screenplays for a number of acclaimed films, including The Fly (1958), The Great Escape (1963), and To Sir With Love (1967), he is best known for his epic novels in his Asian Saga.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gai-Jin: The Epic Novel of the Birth of Modern Japan; Book 3 of Asian Saga Series, James Clavell
• Author: James Clavell
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2009
• ISBN: 0385343272, 9780385343275
• Length: 1092 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Sagas