An edition of Shibumi (1979)

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a novel

1st Three Rivers Press ed.
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An edition of Shibumi (1979)

Shibumi

a novel

1st Three Rivers Press ed.
  • 70 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

NICHOLAI HEL....
Born in the ravages of WWI China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go master, he survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and it's most accomplished and highly paid assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel's secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection..... shibumi. Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his magnificent Eurasion mistress, Hel faces his most sinister enemy --- a super-monolith of espionage and monopoly. The battle lines are drawn, ruthless power and corruption on one side and on the other...... SHIBUMI

Maybe the best book I've ever read.

Publish Date
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Language
English
Pages
486

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Shibumi
Shibumi: a novel
2005, Three Rivers Press
in English - 1st Three Rivers Press ed.
Cover of: Shibumi
Shibumi
May 12, 1980, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Shibumi
Shibumi
1979, Crown Publishers
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.R44 S55 2005, PS3570.R44S55 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
486 p. ;
Number of pages
486

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3300793M
Internet Archive
shibuminovel0000trev
ISBN 10
1400098033
LCCN
2004030110
Library Thing
169727
Goodreads
1059

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February 3, 2024 Edited by meot adding first printing of Dutch translation with the links to the titledescriptions of the three printings (1980, 1984, 1989)
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