Written by: Alan Spence
Submitted By: keith pinkerton
Powerful poetic novel re Thomas Glover the real life Scotsman who established trading links with japan and was instrumental in the creation of their modern navy interwoven with Hiroshima and Nagasaki decades later.Glover is the basis of the story of madame butterfly and the love story is told here also.Spence is professor of creative writing at Aberdeen Uni and the book tells an incredible yet factually based story of epic proportions which like much of Bernard's work deserves to be on the big screen
