![]() This makes SHOGUN a definitive work and demands respect. ![]() Making the readers identify with his varied characters, who are distanced by both time and culture but seem as real as life itself. The author’s genius lies in the fact that instead of using dialogue he takes his readers into the inner thoughts and mind processes of his characters all seemingly Human with human failings and desires, of ego & greed, of Fate & Destiny. Clavell’s writing is different as compared to others - in that he portrays through words striking image patterns and builds a whole world in your imagination transporting you back to the seventeenth century feudal Japan making you live in a historic moment when Japan is in the process of becoming one nation state. ![]() It’s a major step forward in understanding the Japanese outlook to life. ![]() Shogun’s real appeal to the reader is it’s depiction of the the cross cultural clash of different ideologies & most revealing view on differences that existed and to a certain extent still exists between the EAST & WEST. ![]() SHOGUN – James Clavell (first published 1975, Howard & Saughton) ![]()
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