In 1862 Japan, foreign traders and diplomats in the port of Yokohama scramble for advantage amid samurai plots, assassination, and a xenophobic shogunate on the edge of civil war, while young heir Malcolm Struan and French orphan Angelique Richaud fall into a doomed romance at the center of it all.
Books mentioned in Gai-Jin (11)
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: “The only good in the mail were the books from Hatchard's in Piccadilly: a new illustrated edition of Darwin's explosive On the Origin of Species...”
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “...a newly translated pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called The Communist Manifesto...”
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: “...lost in admiration of the man and his marvelous range of stories, from Oliver Twist more than twenty years ago, through Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and a dozen others to the riveting Tale of Two Cities.”
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: “Same passage as Oliver Twist, above — genuine narrative discussion of Dickens's real body of work.”
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: “Same passage as Oliver Twist, above.”
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: “Same passage as Oliver Twist, above — "the riveting Tale of Two Cities."”
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: “This was the weekly started by Charles Dickens, and contained the fourteenth installment of Great Expectations—to be published in twenty parts.”
The Art of War by Sun Tzu: “The answer to all problems for our land can be found here, or in Sun-tzu's 'The Art of War'—and patience.”
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe: “...the book, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, was one that Dmitri had loaned him this morning saying: 'Think you'll like it, Malc, it's what they call a detective story.'”
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: “...heard the Yokohama Players were putting on a performance of Romeo and Juliet...”
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev: “He picked up the advance copy of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons in Russian sent to him by a friend at the Court of St.”