Gai-Jin Gai-Jin
by:
James Clavell (author)
From the author of Noble House comes a blockbuster national bestselling masterpiece of Shogun. Clavell sweeps readers back to Japan in the 1860s, where Malcolm Struan, he ir to the title of Tai-Pan meets a beautiful young French woman who will alter the Noble House legacy. Gai-Jin is scheduled to...
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From the author of Noble House comes a blockbuster national bestselling masterpiece of Shogun. Clavell sweeps readers back to Japan in the 1860s, where Malcolm Struan, he ir to the title of Tai-Pan meets a beautiful young French woman who will alter the Noble House legacy. Gai-Jin is scheduled to be made into an NBC mini-series in 1995.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307485335 (0307485331)
Publish date: May 20th 2009
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Thriller,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Series: Asian Saga (#3)
i wonder if there is some academic thesis somewhere on "the attempt to repeat a formula." an obvious repeat of the Shogun mix, Gai-Jin falls short, being neither great, sweeping, nor stunningly novel, yet for true Clavell fans, the book is 1000 pages of more adventures in Japan for the Japanophile, ...
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