Read the gripping book behind Emmy award-winning Shogun
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Read the gripping book behind Emmy award-winning Shogun

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Drawing from Clavell’s experience fighting in World War Two and being a prisoner of war, Shogun is the third book in the cult author’s expansive Asian Saga series. If you’re binging the show and want to delve deeper into the Shogun world, here’s how to read the book behind the hit Disney+ series. ‘Shogun’ by James Clavell, published by Hodder: £5.99 on Kindle, Amazon.co.uk open image in gallery Published in 1975, Clavell’s epic novel is set in 1600 and follows pilot major John Blackthorne after he’s shipwrecked off the coast of Japan. The third book published in Clavell’s Asian Saga series, Shogun is the first novel to read in chronological order.

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Shōgun: Lost and found in translation
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Shōgun: Lost and found in translation

Hindustan Times  

Translators are wielded as a sword and a shield in Shōgun, the prestige TV reinvention of James Clavell’s historical novel. If Toranaga is to chat battle strategies with Blackthorne, it stands to reason that he can’t depend on Father Martin. Creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks blow the dust off its near-1200 pages, let it air out and make some …

Shōgun: The brutal Japanese history that inspired 2024's latest TV hit
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Shōgun: The brutal Japanese history that inspired 2024's latest TV hit

BBC  

Shōgun: The brutal Japanese history that inspired 2024's latest TV hit FX Cosmo Jarvis and Hiroyuki Sanada star in the new hit Hulu/FX/Disney+ series Shōgun, which brings to life Japan's violent feudal past in all its terrifying glory. The Portuguese and Spanish had two goals: the first was to convert Japan to Christianity… the second was to ultimately conquer Japan …

Shōgun: The FX series improves upon James Clavell’s Orientalist bestselling book.
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Shōgun: The FX series improves upon James Clavell’s Orientalist bestselling book.

Slate  

How do you approach the challenge of adapting a story from one medium to another? Japanese characters stutter through European names—something Clavell seemed to get a kick out of, given how often he styled Blackthorne as some uncomfortable variation of “B’rack’forn” in a phonetic mockery of Japanese people’s accented English. That’s not to mention the book’s fascination with Blackthorne’s enormous …

FX reaches back over 400 years for its next ambitious series, adapting the hit novel ‘Shogun’
10 months, 2 weeks ago

FX reaches back over 400 years for its next ambitious series, adapting the hit novel ‘Shogun’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — When FX sent screenwriter Justin Marks a copy of James Clavell’s hit 1975 novel “Shogun” with the idea of turning it into a series, he initially couldn’t put it down. “It really does get to the core of what it is to encounter another culture and to encounter oneself in that culture.” Marks and his wife plunged …

Shōgun review: This engrossing historical epic is one of the best shows of the year
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Shōgun review: This engrossing historical epic is one of the best shows of the year

Hindustan Times  

To revisit and update one of the definitive shows of the 80s is no mean task. He The bigger crisis is strung in with the passing away of Japan's ruler Taiko, who has left behind a child-age heir, now old enough to take control away. He finds an unlikely ally in John, and together this complex element of trust and …

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