Gate 34

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.

Howard Silk, a minor functionary in a bureaucratic United Nations agency, is nearing the end of a life marked by missed opportunities and remorse. Just as he approaches this final…