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1. Gai-Jin
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NoveList Series:
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 3.
Series:
Asian saga (James Clavell) volume 3
Language:
English
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This epic novel by master writer James Clavell, loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and Anglo-Satsuma War that took place in the late 1800s, is a richly researched, panoramic view of Japan's budding relationship with the Western powers, its sweeping societal changes, and the political upheaval that followed. As Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess Struan, and a small band of Westerners travel down the Tōkaidō road, they are attacked by...
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Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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"The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House . . . the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shōgun battling to usher his country into the modern age . . . a beautiful young Frenchwoman 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,...
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Columbia University Press
Language:
English
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Told throuth the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture.
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She was taught to submit, to obey . . . but she dreamed of an empire. The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake brewers, nineteen-year-old Rie hears but cannot heed her mother's advice: that in nineteenth-century Japan, a woman must "kill the self" or her life will be too difficult to bear. In this strict, male-dominated society, women may not even enter the brewery-and repressive tradition demands that Rie turn over her...