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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
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 18th 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.
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010
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 18th 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.
Reviews
Moving, thoughtful and unexpectedly funny
David Mitchell is back with a bang . . . superb
Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful.
Brilliant.
Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive.
Lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance.
Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant
Hugely enjoyable . . . the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate
A novel which actually deserves the accolade "tour de force".
A masterpiece
However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags . . . Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work.
Arguably his finest . . . It will doubtless earn Mitchell his fourth Man Booker nomination and, if there's any justice, his first win.
A world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat . . . David Mitchell has done it again.
Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful . . . a narrative of panoramic span. Mitchell fills his pages with a medley of accents, idioms and speech habits. Prodigiously researched, his book resurrects a place and period with riveting immediacy . . . it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity
Ambitious and fascinating . . . Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money.
The most impressive fictional mind of his generation.
Pitch-perfect
