About the book: 1999 / The clash of two cultures, worldviews, incredible plot twists made the novel by the modern English writer J. Clavell "Shogun" popular all over the world. A famous film of the same name was made based on the book. Publishing house "Olma-Press", 1999. Brave English adventurer. Invincible Japanese military leader. A beautiful woman, torn between two ways of life, between two paths of love. All this is connected in a great saga, the time and place of which is engulfed in the flames of conflict, passions, ambitions, the thirst for power and the struggle for it. amazon.com. Abstract to the English edition. Translation of firefly.