Spence, Alan <br/><br/>
The pure land 
/ Alan Spence 
 - Edinburgh ;  New York  : Canongate  , 2006 
 - 420 p.  ; 23 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781841958828 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008425195 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013651005   Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Glover, Thomas , 1838 - 1911 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scots----Fiction<br/>Merchants----Fiction<br/>Relationships----Fiction<br/>Women----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan----History----Meiji period 1868 - 1912----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographical fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6069.P43  / P87 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC SPE