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  Autumn Bridge
  

  by Takashi Matsuoka

  ISBN 0091794986 (0-09-179498-6)
  Softcover, Random House

  
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  In the year 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman sits by the window, watching as enemies gather below and fires spread through the night. As she calmly awaits her fate, she begins to write, carefully setting down on a scroll the secret history of the Okumichi clan&of the gift of prophecy they share and the extraordinary destiny that awaits them.
  
  For six centuries, these remarkable writings lay hiddenuntil they are uncovered by an American woman, a missionary named Emily Gibson, who arrived in Edo harbor in 1861, in flight from a tragic past. Soon an extraordinary man would enter her life: Lord Genji of the Okumichi clan, a nobleman with a gift of prophecy who must defend his embattled familyand confront forbidden feelings for an outsider in his midst. Emily, too, soon finds herself at a turning point; courted by two westerners, she knows her heart belongs to the one man she cannot have. But Emily has found a mission of her own: translating Genjis ancestral history, losing herself in an epic tale of heroism and forbidden love.
  
  For here is the story of Lady Shizuka, the beautiful witch-princess who has enchanted Okumichi men for generations&of Genjis ancestors, Lord Hironobu and Lord Kiyori, and of the terrible betrayals that befell them&and of Genjis parents: a wastrel father and his child bride whose tragic love has shaped Genji as a leader and as a man. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. And as past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries, and may now finally be revealed. Takashi Matsuokas spellbinding novel is infused with spectacle, intricately woven, magically told. Autumn Bridge is a feast for the senses, a work of truly dazzling storytelling.
  
  
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  More editions of Autumn Bridge:

  • Autumn Bridge: ISBN 0099445387 (0-09-944538-7)
    Softcover, Random House
  • Autumn Bridge: ISBN 0385339119 (0-385-33911-9)
    Softcover, Delta
  • Autumn Bridge: ISBN 0385336411 (0-385-33641-1)
    Hardcover, Dell Publishing
  • Autumn Bridge: ISBN 0091794986 (0-09-179498-6)
    Softcover, Random House
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  Cloud of Sparrows
  

  by Takashi Matsuoka

  ISBN 1863253580 (1-86325-358-0)
  Softcover, Random House Australia

  
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  Cloud of Sparrows slings an impressive amount of full-blooded plot material at us along with an intelligent weighing out of historical fact. Young Lord Genji is a samurai whose blood feuds with the Shogun go back centuries--his family have predictive powers that have shown him that his future lies in forming alliances with the incoming Americans. Emily is a young missionary who considers Japan to be a place where her looks will be considered hideous and she will be free of male attention; Heiko is the most beautiful geisha of her generation, and also a ninja assassin who has fallen in love with her prospective victim, Genji. And Stark is a gunslinger posing as missionary who has come to Japan to find a man he has sworn to kill.

  The strength of all this lies, in part, in the fact that both sets of characters are as exotic to us as they are to each other--Takashi Matsuoka is wittily smart about how much things change in a century and a half. He also writes brilliantly and excitingly when describing a scene of battle, a gun or sword duel. This is a startlingly good debut. --Roz Kaveney [via]

  More editions of Cloud of Sparrows:

  • Cloud of Sparrows: ISBN 0099441586 (0-09-944158-6)
    Softcover, Random House
  • Cloud Of Sparrows: ISBN 0385338503 (0-385-33850-3)
    Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
  • Cloud Of Sparrows: ISBN 0440240859 (0-440-24085-9)
    Softcover, Bantam Books
  • Cloud of Sparrows: ISBN 0091794730 (0-09-179473-0)
    Softcover, Random House
  • Cloud of Sparrows: ISBN 0091794544 (0-09-179454-4)
    Hardcover, Random House
  • Cloud of Sparrows: ISBN 0385336403 (0-385-33640-3)
    Hardcover, Dell Publishing
  • Cloud Of Sparrows: ISBN 0606304991 (0-606-30499-1)
    Hardcover, Demco Media
  • Cloud of Sparrows: ISBN 1863253580 (1-86325-358-0)
    Softcover, Random House Australia

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  Die Geliebte des Samurai
  

  by Takashi Matsuoka

  ISBN 3442461715 (3-442-46171-5)
  Softcover

  
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  • Die Geliebte des Samurai: ISBN 3442461715 (3-442-46171-5)
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  Die Stunde des Samurai
  

  by Takashi Matsuoka

  ISBN 3442458765 (3-442-45876-5)
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  • Die Stunde des Samurai: ISBN 3442463564 (3-442-46356-4)
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  • Die Stunde des Samurai.: ISBN 3442458765 (3-442-45876-5)
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