5/10/2023 0 Comments Noble House by James Clavell![]() ![]() 1147 pages (Abridged with some rewritten parts as Escape, 598 pages)įour of the six books- Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, Noble House, and Whirlwind-follow the dealings of the great trading company Struan's, the Noble House of Asia (based on Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited), its founder Dirk Struan, and his various descendants. King Rat: set in a Japanese POW camp, Singapore, 1945.The purpose of the Asian Saga was, according to Clavell-descendant of a family long in service to the British Empire, and who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese during the Second World War-to tell "the story of the Anglo-Saxon in Asia". The name Asian Saga was first applied to the series after Shōgun had been published. The novels all centre on Europeans in Asia, and together explore the impact on East and West of the meeting of these two distinct civilizations. ![]() The Asian Saga is a series of six novels written by James Clavell between 19. ![]()
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