Spence Alan - The Pure Land - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Pure Land
Author(s): Spence Alan
Publisher: Canongate Books
Barcode: 9781841959597
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction