The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - Softcover

Mitchell, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812982339 ISBN 13: 9780812982336

Publisher: Random House LLC US, 1900

Synopsis

Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds -- or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell's panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin -- and all the while, unbeknownst to him and his feuding compatriots, the axis of global power is turning...

About this title

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)

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House LLC US
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0812982339
• ISBN 13: 9780812982336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 510