โ Spence, Alan
๐ Fiction
๐
2007
๐ Canongate U.S.
๐ English
โ 243 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Pure Land
โ Scribed by Alan Spence
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2010;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 302 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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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