Alan Spence

The Pure Land (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847674296
• Artikelnr.: 38357440

Autorenporträt

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.