During Shiba Ryōtarō’s lifetime, his books regularly became best-sellers. Clouds above the Hill, now in its 20th printing, has sold 18 million copies. The novel is currently being serialized in a lavish production on Japanese television.

Shiba devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features Japan's emergence onto the world stage by the early years of the twentieth century.
The translation will be published in four volumes. The first two volumes will publish in December 2012. The final two volumes will publish a year later.