Thousand Autumns Of Jacob de Zoet

Mitchell, David

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Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, crushing all vestiges of Christianity, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas.

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Publish Date: 17/03/2011

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‘ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY’ Independent

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes

‘Thrillingly suspenseful’
Sunday Times

‘Stunning’
Independent on Sunday

‘Brilliant’
The Times

‘Entirely original’
Observer

‘A classic’
Washington Post

The Sunday Times Number One bestseller from the author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue

In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the eighteenth century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.

Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control – of riches and minds, and over death itself.

PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL

‘A thrilling and gifted writer’
Financial Times

‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’
Daily Mail

‘Mitchell is, clearly, a genius’
New York Times Book Review

‘An author of extraordinary ambition and skill’
Independent on Sunday

‘A superb storyteller’
The New Yorker

Additional information

Weight 280 g
Dimensions 196 × 130 × 28 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

560

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K