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The Pure Land
Author(s): Alan Spence (Author)
- Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books
- Publication Date: October 1, 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 488 pages
- ISBN-10: 0753177773
- ISBN-13: 9780753177778
Book Description
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.
