{"product_id":"the-pure-land","title":"Alan Spence: The Pure Land [2007] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eMadame Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMiss Saigon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pure Land\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spence, Alan","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47649552466259,"sku":"XG81841959597","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/spence-alan-the-pure-land-xg81841959597-54332106441043.jpg?v=1726383373","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-pure-land","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}