![]() Shogun is a complex and insightful exploration of the Samurai tradition and Japanese culture and we learn about them alongside John Blackthorne who, through an accident, finds himself part of Japanese society. I have seen The Last Samurai and find similarities but there is so much more to a book than a film. ![]() I want to understand traditional Japanese culture and James Clavell's novel, so much more than an exciting adventure, is the way I choose to learn. Shogun was published in 1975 and I pick it up at the end of 2008, nostalgia for the films of a few decades ago, films by Satyajit Ray, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa. He writes in the oldest and grandest tradition fiction knows.' It's not only something you read - you live it. He creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are. This paperback copy of Shogun, the nineteenth impression produced in 1983, proclaims on the cover ‘six million copies in print.' In a prefacing page, quotations from reviews, among them the New York Times Book Review: ‘I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. ![]()
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