The Washington Post, April 25th, 1993
GAI-JIN By James Clavell Delacorte. 1038 pp. $27.50 GAI-JIN (meaning "foreigner" in colloquial Japanese) is the sixth novel in James Clavell's continuing "Asian Saga" (the others are Shogun, Taipan, King Rat, Noble House and Whirlwind), and this one brings together two families familiar to Clavell fans: the Struans of the Noble House (based on the history of the trading company Jardine Matheson), and the Toranagas of Japan (the Tokugawa family in the history books). The story begins in September 1862, over two-and-a-half centuries after the climactic events witnessed by Clavell's earlier pr...
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