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_aPR6069.P43 _bP87 2007 |
| 082 | 0 | 4 | _aFIC SPE |
| 100 | 1 | _aSpence, Alan | |
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_aThe pure land _c/ Alan Spence |
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_aEdinburgh ; _aNew York _b: Canongate _c, 2006 |
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_a420 p. _c; 23 cm. |
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| 520 | _aThe 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. | ||
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_aGlover, Thomas _d, 1838 - 1911 |
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_aScots _v--Fiction |
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| 650 | 4 |
_aMerchants _v--Fiction |
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_aRelationships _v--Fiction |
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_aWomen _v--Fiction |
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_aJapan _x--History _y--Meiji period 1868 - 1912 _v--Fiction |
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| 655 | 7 | _aBiographical fiction | |
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