Gai-Jin – James Clavell

“A herculean achievement . . . strong plot and strong characterisation“ The TimesIt is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the Emperor. In Yokohama, the gai-jin, the hated foreigners, seek to profit from the chaos. At the head of the Noble House – and heir to the title of Tai-Pan – stands Malcolm Struan, who is determined to become his own man and marry the woman he loves. At the head of the Shogunate party is the Lord Yoshi, a direct descendant of Shogun Toranaga, who shares all of his ancestor“s cunning and ambition.“A passionate portrait of suffering . . . a strange and gripping tale of a nation“s deflowerment“ Mail on Sunday