{"product_id":"the-pure-land","title":"The Pure Land","description":"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.\r\n\r\nThe 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.","brand":"Alan Spence","offers":[{"title":"Canongate Books \/ 07 Jun 2007 \/ 274","offer_id":49897958932821,"sku":"9781841959597","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9781841959597.webp?v=1731880084","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/the-pure-land","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}