Gai-Jin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1862 feudal Japan, Gai-Jin — meaning foreigner or outsider in Japanese — plunges readers into a world of clashing civilisations, forbidden desires, and lethal political intrigue. When a young English merchant, Malcolm Struan, is gravely wounded in a samurai ambush on the Tōkaidō road, his struggle for survival ignites a powder keg of tension between the Western trading nations camped at Yokohama and the fiercely isolationist Japanese clans determined to expel every gai-jin from their sacred shores. At the heart of the storm stands Angelique Richaud, a French beauty whose love for Struan defies the rigid codes of both cultures, while around her, merchants, diplomats, ninja, and warlords manoeuvre in a deadly game where one wrong move means war. James Clavell, the undisputed master of the Asian saga, constructs an epic tapestry that chronicles the collision of East and West with the same sweeping authority that made Shōgun and Tai-Pan literary landmarks. His prose is densely layered yet compulsively readable, weaving meticulous historical research into richly drawn characters whose loyalties, ambitions, and passions feel urgently human. Gai-Jin stands as the sixth and final instalment of Clavell's celebrated Asian Saga, and it argues, with remarkable nuance, that misunderstanding between cultures is not merely a historical curiosity but an enduring human condition — a conclusion that lingers long after the last page is turned.
Author: James Clavell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, BCA
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1862 feudal Japan, Gai-Jin — meaning foreigner or outsider in Japanese — plunges readers into a world of clashing civilisations, forbidden desires, and lethal political intrigue. When a young English merchant, Malcolm Struan, is gravely wounded in a samurai ambush on the Tōkaidō road, his struggle for survival ignites a powder keg of tension between the Western trading nations camped at Yokohama and the fiercely isolationist Japanese clans determined to expel every gai-jin from their sacred shores. At the heart of the storm stands Angelique Richaud, a French beauty whose love for Struan defies the rigid codes of both cultures, while around her, merchants, diplomats, ninja, and warlords manoeuvre in a deadly game where one wrong move means war. James Clavell, the undisputed master of the Asian saga, constructs an epic tapestry that chronicles the collision of East and West with the same sweeping authority that made Shōgun and Tai-Pan literary landmarks. His prose is densely layered yet compulsively readable, weaving meticulous historical research into richly drawn characters whose loyalties, ambitions, and passions feel urgently human. Gai-Jin stands as the sixth and final instalment of Clavell's celebrated Asian Saga, and it argues, with remarkable nuance, that misunderstanding between cultures is not merely a historical curiosity but an enduring human condition — a conclusion that lingers long after the last page is turned.