A powerful historical novel based on the remarkable life of Thomas Glover whoinspired Madame Butterfly. Beginning in 1858 when Glover was eighteen and atrader i... » 

A powerful historical novel based on the remarkable life of Thomas Glover whoinspired Madame Butterfly. Beginning in 1858 when Glover was eighteen and atrader in Japan it is a hundredyear saga that culminates in the annihilationof Nagasaki in 1945. He is a writer to cherish one offering deep andfulfilling pleasures Alan Massie «