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.
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.
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:9781841958552
