The Pure Land

The Pure Land
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Publisher : Canongate Books
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781847674296
ISBN-13 : 1847674291
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Book Synopsis The Pure Land by : Alan Spence

Download or read book The Pure Land written by Alan Spence and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old 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, learns the ways of the samurai, 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 courtesan - a woman who, unknown to him, would bear him the son for which he had always longed - would form a tragedy so dramatic as to be immortalised in the stories behind Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon. The Pure Land relives in fiction the arc of Glover's true-life rise and fall, and forges a hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki in 1945.


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