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About the author:
James Clavell 1924 - 1994
James Clavell, the son of a Royal Naval family, was educated in Portsmouth before, as a young artillery officer, he was captured by the japanese at the fall of Singapore. He spent the rest of World War II in the infamous Changi prison. It was on his experience in Changi that his bestselling novel King Rat was based. The interest in Asia, its people and culture continued with Tai-pan, a tale of Canton and Hong Kong in the mid-19th century and the founding of an Anglo-chinese trading company, Struan's. This was followed by the classic Shõgun, the story of Japan during the period two centuries before when Europe first began to make an impact on the island people of the Rising Sun. Noble House, the fourth novel in the asian saga, continued the story of Struan's, the Hong Kong trading company, as the winds of change blew through the Far East. Whirlwind, set in Iran, brought the saga into the present century. Now comes Gai-Jin, set twenty years after the end of Tai-pan.
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