For the next book club, we’re going BIG. We were both so enamored by the FX adaptation of Shogun that we just had to read the book. So we’re doing it. IMPORTANT NOTE: Shogun is incredibly long and so we’ve elected to take a couple of months to read it. There will be no May book club and we will instead be meeting up at the end of June to chat about this book. Plenty of time!
Here’s the summary:
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen–Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.
We are so excited about this! We hope you are!
The live-streamed discussion of Shogun will occur Friday, June 28th at 9:30 PM Central Time over on our YouTube page. We’ll see you there!
