Summary
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....From the Paperback edition.
First line
THE PANIC-STRICKEN GIRL WAS galloping full speed back towards the coast, half a mile ahead, along footpaths that led precariously through the rice swamps and paddy fields.
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- Title Gai-Jin
- Author James Clavell
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 1056
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Delacorte Press, New York
- Date May 1, 1993
- ISBN 9780385310222 / 0385310226
- Weight 3950 lbs (1,791.69 kg)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Delacorte Press, 1993 ISBN# 0-385-31016-1 First Edition, vg+/vg+. This book is in great condition. 1037 pages and protected by a mylar cover. This is the long awaited sixth novel. Malcolm Struan at twenty is heir to the most powerful English trading company in the Orient. Maslcolm's fate and that of his family's legacy, become inextricably intertwined with that of a beautiful French woman, Angelique Richard, who will hold the future of the Noble House in her hands.. F. Hardcover.
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by James Clavell
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New York: Delacorte Press. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385310226 . Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. ; Signed by author on 2nd FEP. Number 80 of 350 signed limited edition copies. ; 9.3 X 6.2 X 2.0 inches; 1056 pages; Signed by Author .
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