Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The

Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The
David Mitchell
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17 Mar 2011 UK
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9780340921586
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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 strange 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'
Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant The Times Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful Sunday Times Unquestionably a marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation Observer A world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat ... David Mitchell has done it again. Independent on Sunday Arguably his finest ... It will doubtless earn Mitchell his fourth Man Booker nomination and, if there's any justice, his first win. Sunday Telegraph However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags ... Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work. Independent Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful ... a narrative of panoramic span. Mitchell fills his pages with a medley of accents, idioms and speech habits. Prodigiously researched, his book resurrects a place and period with riveting immediacy ... it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times Lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance -- Katy Guest Independent on Sunday That rare thing - a novel which actually deserves the accolade "tour de force" -- Kamila Shamsie Daily Telegraph Books of the Year Moving, thoughtful and unexpectedly funny -- Richard Eyre Observer Books of the Year Hugely enjoyable ... the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate Literary Review A masterpiece Scotsman David Mitchell is back with a bang ... superb Irish Independent Ambitious and fascinating ... Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money. Kirkus Reviews Pitch-perfect -- Boyd Tonkin Independent Books of the Year Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
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, was shortlisted for six awards including 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 Booker. 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. David Mitchell's sixth novel is The Bone Clocks (Sceptre, 2014).
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780340921586
Published: 17 Mar 2011
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sceptre
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 132mm
Pages: 576
Dewey: 823.92

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