The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet - Hardcover

David Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340921560 ISBN 13: 9780340921562

Publisher: Sceptre, 2010

Synopsis

David Mitchell s novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year award attest. Now he has written a masterpiece. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the kind of book that comes along once in a decade enthralling in its storytelling, imagination and scope.

Set at a turning point in history on a tiny island attached to mainland Japan, David Mitchell s tale of power, passion and integrity transports us to a world that is at once exotic and familiar: an extraordinary place and an era when news from abroad took months to arrive, yet when people behaved as they always do - loving, lusting and yearning, cheating, fighting and killing.

Bringing to vivid life a tectonic shift between East and West, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is dramatic, funny, heartbreaking, enlightening and thought-provoking. Reading it is an unforgettable experience.

About this title

Product Description:

Physical description: 469 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Subjects: East and West - Fiction Trading posts - Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) - History - 1787-1868.

Review:

'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent )

'David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' ( Daily Mail )

'He possesses an amazingly copious and eclectic imagination' (William Boyd, Daily Telegraph )

'A thrilling and gifted writer, commanding an enormous breadth of language and erudition'

(Financial Times )

'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill' (Independent on Sunday )

'A storyteller of genius and a master of prose...a man who may yet prove to be the greatest British writer of his age' (Mail on Sunday )

'His novels are unlike anything else' (Philip Hensher, Spectator )

'Open up his head and a whole symphony of inventiveness and ideas will fly out' (The Times )

'A wonderfully amphibious writer, happy in all manner of elements' (Observer )

'A daring, inventive writer with talent, humour and energy to burn' (Irish Times )

'He has an absolutely classic authorial voice, very clear like clear glass, and doesn t advertise his own cleverness.' (AS Byatt, Independent on Sunday )

'David Mitchell may well be possessed of genius' (Irish Independent ) --.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0340921560
• ISBN 13: 9780340921562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480