Gai-Jin

Jean Markale

Fernando Fernan-Gomez

James Salter

Valeriano Bozal

Intervenir en un debate inexistente, he ahí la paradoja, provocarlo con tal intervención, esa es la esperanza. Este no es un libro académico ni un libro de estética, aunque reflexione en torno a categorías estéticas: escrito a la manera de un panfleto filosófico, incita a una lectura política. No por eso confunde la estética con la política, reduce aquélla o estetiza ésta. El c...

Mika Waltari / Waltari, Mika

Continuación de Vida de Mikael Karvajalka el aventurero, en esta ocasión el intrépido joven abandona Venecia con su amigo Andy para iniciar una peregrinación a Tierra Santa, pero no tarda en verse implicado en la vorágine de violencia en la que están envueltos los seguidores de la cruz y los de la media luna por el control del Mediterráneo. Situada durante el reinado de Solimán...

Fernando Fernan-Gomez

James Clavell

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete nove...

James Clavell

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains the first half of the complete novel...

James Clavell

The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes-fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong-the heart of Asia-rich in every trade...money, flesh, opium, power. ...

James Clavell

Gai-Jin (Japanese, "Foreigner") is a 1993 novel by James Clavell, chronologically the third book in his Asian Saga, although it was the last to be published. Taking place about 20 years after the events of Tai-Pan, it chronicles the adventures of Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess Struan, in Japan. The story goes into depth on the political situation in Japan and the hos...