Ebook {Epub PDF} Gai-Jin by James Clavell

 · Grand in scope and scale, filled with the richness and passion of two great histories coming together, Gai-jin is the long-awaited sixth novel in James Clavell's magnificent Asian Saga/5(). Gai-Jin is a brilliant novel filled with fascinating characters and epic story lines and I recommend it highly. It reads like a history book, a spy thriller, and a tragic love story all at once. What other book might you compare Gai-Jin to and why? Gai-Jin isn't as famous as Shogun but is essential reading for a true fan. It is tragic in many ways as it traces the difficu It is almost impossible to summarise a James Clavell novel in a book review/5().

James Clavell, Writer: The Great Escape. James Clavell was born on Octo, in Sydney, New South Wales, as Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell. He was a film and TV writer and producer. During World War II, he was a British soldier and a Japanese prisoner on Java and in Singapore, which led to his great interest in things East Asian and Japanese, and the experiences of prisoners of. Gai-Jin By James Clavell 1, pages. Delacorte Press. $ At the opening of James Clavell's intermittently absorbing but overlong new novel, "Gai-Jin," two previous works in the author's so. I came to Gai Jin having read James Clavell's outstanding Shogun a while ago. Comparing Gai Jin against that sets the bar exceptionally high but the comparison is inevitable as both are by the same author, epically long, set in Japan in time periods well removed from the present day (albeit more than years apart), and involve foreigners.

Gai-Jin is a brilliant novel filled with fascinating characters and epic story lines and I recommend it highly. It reads like a history book, a spy thriller, and a tragic love story all at once. What other book might you compare Gai-Jin to and why?. 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.. Grand in scope and scale, filled with the richness and passion of two great histories coming together, Gai-jin is the long-awaited sixth novel in James Clavell's magnificent Asian Saga.