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Pure land / Alan Spence.
Van Pelt Library PR6069.P43 P87 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spence, Alan, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Glover, Thomas Blake, 1838-1911--Fiction.
- Glover, Thomas Blake.
- Glover, Thomas Blake, 1838-1911--Relations with women--Fiction.
- Glover, Thomas Blake, 1838-1911.
- Merchants--Scotland--Fiction.
- Merchants.
- Merchants--Japan--Fiction.
- History.
- Relations with women.
- Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Japan--History--1912-1945--Fiction.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Biographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 420 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh ; New York : Canongate, [2006]
- Summary:
- The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping clerk to millionaire industrialist. Yet behind 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 immortalized in the story of Madame Butterfly. The Pure Land relives in fiction the arc of Glover's true-life rise and fall, and forges a 100-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki in 1945.
- ISBN:
- 1841958824
- 9781841958828
- OCLC:
- 170956429
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