THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET
Author(s): MITCHELL, DAVID
Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, crushing all vestiges of Christianity, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas. The narrow window onto this nation-fortress is a walled, artificial island attached to the mainland port and manned by a handful of traders. Locked as the land-gate may be, however, 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 young Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a strage adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin - and all the while, unbeknownst to the men confined on Dejima, the axis of global power is turning...
Product Information
Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2010.
Praise for -- BLACK SWAN GREEN 'David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good...BLACK SWAN GREEN is just gorgeous.' -- Daily Mail 'A delight to read from beginning to end' -- Sunday Express 'Luminously beautiful' -- The Times 'Mitchell is just about the best writer operating in Britain today...a novel that, like each of its predecessors, sticks in the back of your head for weeks after you've finished it.' -- Arena
General Fields
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- : HOD
- : HOD
- : 0.22
- : 12 May 2010
- : 142mm X 127mm X 26mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 1
- : AC
- : MITCHELL, DAVID
