The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: Longlisted for the Booker Prize - Softcover

Mitchell, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340921587 ISBN 13: 9780340921586

Publisher: Sceptre, 2011

Synopsis

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010In 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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Review:

Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive. (Dave Eggers New York Times Book Review)

Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful. (Sunday Times)

The most impressive fictional mind of his generation. (Observer)

A novel which actually deserves the accolade "tour de force". (Kamila Shamsie, Books of the Year Daily Telegraph)

Lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance. (Katy Guest Independent on Sunday)

Brilliant. (The Times)

From the Author:

Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten. Published in 1999, it was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature prizes and the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and adapted for film in 2012. It was followed by Black Swan Green, shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Both were also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2013, The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida was published in a translation from the Japanese by David Mitchell and KA Yoshida. It was an immediate bestseller in the UK and later in the US as well. David Mitchell's sixth novel is The Bone Clocks (Sceptre, September 2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0340921587
• ISBN 13: 9780340921586
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560