{"product_id":"9781841958828","title":"The Pure Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pure Land\u003c\/i\u003e resurrects the dramatic life of Thomas Glover, the Scottish businessman who helped overthrow the shogun and whose tumultuous love affairs inspired the opera\u003ci\u003e Madame Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e and the musical \u003ci\u003eMiss Saigon\u003c\/i\u003e. Alan Spence has transformed this true story into an unforgettable hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old in Aberdeen in 1858 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, helps to modernize Japan, and, on the other side of the law, brings about the overthrow of the shogun. Yet beneath 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 whom he had always longed—would form a tragedy so heartrending that the story became immortal. Called “a page-turner of the first order . . . an engaging and vivid historical novel, but also a meditative work of art” by \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e of London, \u003ci\u003eThe Pure Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern epic, a rattling good adventure, a devastating love story, and a journey of the spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057323589872,"sku":"9781841958828","price":10.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841958828_p0.jpg?v=1769893132","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841958828","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}