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Tai-Pan
by James Clavell
War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock come to control much of England's trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations. East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. A tour-de-force of historical fiction.
Year: 1966
Genre: Far East, Historical
Shogun
by James Clavell
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom.
Year: 1975
Genre: Action, Far East, Historical
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob's original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor.
Year: 2010
Genre: Far East
Titles
| Got It | Want It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1966 | Tai-Pan | by James Clavell | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1975 | Shogun | by James Clavell | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 2010 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | by David Mitchell | ||||||