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The pure land

The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escape. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he earns a great fortune, learns the ways of the Samurai and helps to overthrow the Shogun. Yet beneath his astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart by an affair with a beautiful courtesan, a lover who, unknown to Glover, would bear him a son. Based on the true-life story that inspired Madame Butterfly, The Pure Land is a tale that will linger. Alan Spence is an award-winning poet and playwr.

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  • "Pure land"@he
  • "Pure land"@pl
  • "Tierra pura"

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  • "The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escape. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he earns a great fortune, learns the ways of the Samurai and helps to overthrow the Shogun. Yet beneath his astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart by an affair with a beautiful courtesan, a lover who, unknown to Glover, would bear him a son. Based on the true-life story that inspired Madame Butterfly, The Pure Land is a tale that will linger. Alan Spence is an award-winning poet and playwr."@en
  • "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 immortalised 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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Scottish businessman Thomas Glover, who in 1858 as a teenager takes a post as a trader in Japan and amasses a fortune over the next decade, plays a key role in modernizing Japan and helps engineer the overthrow of the shogun."@en
  • "Scottish businessman Thomas Glover, who in 1858 as a teenager takes a post as a trader in Japan and amasses a fortune over the next decade, plays a key role in modernizing Japan and helps engineer the overthrow of the shogun."@es
  • "This is the story of a prominent 19th-century industrialist from Scotland, one of the first Westerners to leave a mark on Japanese economy and politics, and yet it is more than that. This book will make you think about the subtleties of motivation for actions and the contradictions that often accompany their consequences. Moreover it will make people think about the relationship between success and happiness."

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  • "Skotské romány (anglicky)"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"@he
  • "History"@es
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Scottish fiction (English)"
  • "Biographical fiction"@en
  • "Biographical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical novels"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Historické romány"

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  • "The pure land"@en
  • "The pure land"
  • "Čistá země"
  • "Det rena landet : [roman]"@sv
  • "Det rene land"@da
  • "Det rena landet"@sv
  • "La Tierra pura"
  • "ha-Arets ha-ṭehorah"
  • "הארץ הטהורה"
  • "Le monde flottant : roman"
  • "Czysta ziemia"
  • "Czysta ziemia"@pl
  • "Pure land"@en
  • "The pure land \ c Alan Spence"
  • "The Pure Land"@en
  • "De drijvende wereld"
  • "La tierra pura"@en
  • "La tierra pura"
  • "La tierra pura"@es
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