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.
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'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 ) --.
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