Cloud of Sparrows: A Novel
After centuries of isolation, Japan opens to the West. Foreign ships threaten Edo, as American missionaries arrive, unaware of their predestined fate. With Lord Genji's prophecy, a remarkable adventure begins as a young nobleman meets a reformed gunslinger and a woman fleeing her own beauty.
In Takashi Matsuoka’s Cloud of Sparrows: A Novel, after two centuries of isolation, Japan opens its doors to the West. As foreign ships threaten Edo, American missionaries arrive. But little do they know, their fate’s already written. Lord Genji dreams of an outsider saving his life. When a reformed gunslinger and a woman on the run cross paths with him, an epic adventure begins.
