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Matsuoka, Takashi Cloud of Sparrows
Dell August 26, 2003 0-440-24085-9 / 9780440240853 Paperback Very Good+
Following in the substantial footsteps of filmmaker Akiro Kurosawa and Shog un author James Clavell is Takashi Matsuoka, whose action-packed debut nove l, Cloud of Sparrows, unfolds as the age of the samurai warrior starts to w ane. The year is 1861, and Lord Genji of Akaoka, last in line of the Okamic hi clan, welcomes missionaries Emily, Matthew, and Zephaniah to Japan. Cut off from the West for more than 2,000 years, Japan is as completely unprepa red for these outsiders as the missionaries are for geishas and honor killi ngs. Genji, his geisha love Heiko, and the missionaries suddenly find thems elves in the middle of several nefarious plots to overthrow the Okamichi le ader from as far away as the shogun's palace and as close as Genji's own he nchmen. Genji and his visitors journey together across treacherous terrain to seek refuge at the faraway Cloud of Sparrows palace. Although it's a rip -roaring yarn full of ambushes, swordfights, cross-cultural friction, love, and prophetic visions, the book does read a bit like a screenplay, cutting quickly from one scene to another. But the frequent shifts in the story's tempo succeed in making the novel all the more vivid, allowing simultaneous action and contemplation to deepen the story and its inhabitants.
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