The Pure Land - Couverture souple

Spence, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1841959596 ISBN 13 : 9781841959597

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2007

Synopsis

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. 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 which he had always longed - would form a tragedy so dramatic as to be immortalised in the stories behind Madame Butterfly and Miss Saigon.

The Pure Land relives in fiction the arc of Glover's true-life rise and fall, and forges a hundred-year saga that culminates in the annihilation of Nagasaki in 1945.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan Spence is an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer and is the author of six works of fiction, six collections of poetry and six plays. His awards include the Glenfiddich Award, The People's Prize, Macallan Short Story Prize and McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. He is Professor Emeritus in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen where he founded the annual WORD Festival in 1999 and was its Artistic Director for twelve years. With his wife he runs the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Centre in Edinburgh. In 2017 he was appointed Edinburgh Makar, the Poet Laureate for the City.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A modern epic
A heart-breaking love story
An unforgettable journey of the spirit

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.

'Not merely an engaging and vivid historical novel, but also a meditative work of art that is as finely honed as a Samurai's sword.'
John Burnside, The Times

'Rattles along, grounded in historical research and filled with emotional truths.'
Daily Mail

'Astonishing in its breadth, depth and ambition . . . a beautifully written modern epic.'
Irish Independent

Winner of the Glenfiddich Award

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1841959596
• ISBN 13: 9781841959597
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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