Shogun, Part Two : Blackstone Publishing : 9798212895200 : 12 Dec 2023 : By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Sho¯gun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series! Sho¯gun, 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 novel. 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 char