Shōgun - James Clavell | Книги

John Blackthorne, whose dream is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from the Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position.
Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun - supreme military dictator - and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterful and farsighted leadership.
Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder.
Shogun is a huge, exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteen century but still medieval Japan, rival war-lords and proselytizing Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with death-wish and a shipwrecked Elizabethan.