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The Pure Land Book
The Pure Landresurrects the dramatic life of Thomas Glover, the Scottish businessman who helped overthrow the shogun and whose tumultuous love affairs inspired the operaMadame Butterflyand the musicalMiss Saigon. Alan Spence has transformed this true story into an unforgettable hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old in Aberdeen in 1858 who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, helps to modernize Japan, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the shogun. Yet beneath Glover’s astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart. His love affair with a courtesana woman who, unknown to him, would bear him the son for whom he had always longedwould form a tragedy so heartrending that the story became immortal. Called a page-turner of the first order . . . an engaging and vivid historical novel, but also a meditative work of art” byThe Timesof London,The Pure Landis a modern epic, a rattling good adventure, a devastating love story, and a journey of the spirit.Read More
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- 1841958824
- 9781841958828
- Alan Spence
- 10 November 2007
- Canongate Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 432
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