Gai-Jin: A Novel of Japan.

CLAVELL, James.

Item Number: 106599

New York: Delacorte Press, 1993.

First edition of this work in Clavell’s Asian Saga. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Clavell on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Santora. Author’s photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Gai-Jin (Japanese for "foreigner") is a 1993 novel by James Clavell, chronologically the third book in his Asian Saga, although it was the last to be published. Taking place about 20 years after the events of Tai-Pan, it chronicles the adventures of Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess Struan, in Japan. The story delves deeply into the political situation in Japan and the hostility Westerners faced there, and is loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and the subsequent Anglo-Satsuma War.