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The number one bestselling novel by 'just about the most audacious, thrilling and, above all, entertaining young British novelist there is' - Observer.Read More

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  • Foyles

    'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted 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 POSTThe Sunday Times Number One bestseller from the author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia AvenueIn 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

  • TheBookPeople

    Shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet is set on a man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, a place that for 200 years was the only gateway between Japan and the West. A young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune and ends up falling for a Japanese midwife. As the two cultures collide, scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines all combine to devastating effect. Packed with historical references, this ambitious novel is a tale of integrity and corruption, and passion and power.

  • ASDA

    Be transported to 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.

  • Blackwell

    Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 In your hands is a place like no...

  • BookDepository

    The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9780340921586 : 0340921587 : 13 Nov 2012 : Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes

  • 0340921587
  • 9780340921586
  • David Mitchell
  • 17 March 2011
  • Sceptre
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 576
  • First Thus
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