The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Longlisted for the Booker Prize

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'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT

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

'Thrillingly suspenseful'
SUNDAY TIMES

'Stunning'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Brilliant'
THE TIMES

'Entirely original'
OBSERVER

'A classic'
WASHINGTON POST

The Sunday Times Number One bestseller from the author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue

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 eighteenth 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.

PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL

'A thrilling and gifted writer'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'
DAILY MAIL

'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'A superb storyteller'
THE NEW YORKER

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
13 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
300
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hodder & Stoughton
SELLER
Hachette Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
5.9
MB
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