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Shōgun

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First published: 1975
Pages: 1,207

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Details of work: Sh ō gun is bestselling historical novel written by James Clavell published in 1975. It also marks the first narrative of the Asian Saga – the masterpiece’s internal chronology. A Brief Genealogy of the Setting: The novel starts several months before a famous battle of Sekigahara in feudal Japan in the year 1600. This comes after the life of daimyō “Toranaga” a real historical figure namely Tokugawa Ieyasu,OffthenarrativeisJohn Blackthorne,known as Anjin or Pilot in Japanese.

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James Clavell

Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, known as James Clavell, was a British and American writer, filmmaker and a British Army officer during the Second World War. He is best known for his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television and film adaptations.

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