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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

Hardcover | Pages: 479 pages

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Title	:	The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Author	:	David Mitchell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	U.S. Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 479 pages
Published	:	June 29th 2010 by Random House (first published May 13th 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Literary Fiction

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In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books seems entirely different from that which preceded it.” The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a stunning departure for this brilliant, restless, and wildly ambitious author, a giant leap forward by even his own high standards. A bold and epic novel of a rarely visited point in history, it is a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable.

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland.

But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?”

A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.
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Original Title:	The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
ISBN:	1400065453 (ISBN13: 9781400065455)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jacob de Zoet
Setting:	Dejima,1799(Japan)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2011), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010), Macavity Award Nominee for Sue Feder Historical Mystery (2011), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2011) Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Favorite Book (2010), Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee (2011)

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David Mitchell's forte is the creation of fully formed worlds with numerous living, breathing characters, all written in beautiful, engaging prose. I didn't think the subject matter of this novel would interest me at all (a trading post? a naval battle? not for me) but I was happy to live in this world with these characters while I was reading it. The plot is intricate but not cumbersome; details have meaning.As in Cloud Atlas, there are recurring phrases and images that echo poetically

A transient, dubious point of intersection with a secluded, floating world. Two disparate spheres of influence navigating a treacherous turn of the century wherein the actions of either will determine the course of future events. A clash of civilizations where all involved parties are unwilling to cede even something as basic as acknowledgement to the other. Races laboring under the virulent delusion that skin color predetermines superiority or inferiority. Love in the time of prejudice and

I enjoyed this one; I definitely preferred it to Cloud Atlas, the only other Mitchell novel I've read. It's certainly more straightforward, structurally speaking; there is no jumping about in the timestream here. The Thousand Autumns of Jacon de Zoet is simply the story of the titular character's time spent in Japan, set at the turn of the 19th Century.Mitchell's writing is engaging. There is romance, scandal, action, adventure, betrayal, conspiracy, corruption, heroism and loss to be had here;

In this historical novel, an unassuming Dutch bookkeeper named Jacob de Zoet falls in love with a beautiful midwife in 18th-century Japan. When Miss Aiba-gawa is spirited away to a mountain monastery, Jacob finds the heroism in his soul. Here is a bygone secret world full of charm and horror. Mitchell is best known for Cloud Atlas, which was a literary stunt in this correspondents opinion. The Thousand Autumns is far better.

THE APPRENTICEWEEK 6 - THE SEMI-FINALVoiceover : Lord Sugar is looking for a historical novelist to invest in. He scoured the country for the very best. Twelve were selected to begin the process. After six weeks of hard battling, only three are left.* It's the Apprentice Week Six!(We see a montage of the three remaining contestants, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters frantically typing away on laptops).This week's task : to write a complete historical novel in only seven days. All

Is there anything David Mitchell can't do? Dazzling is the word for this. Fizzing with life, it appears at first to be a conventional historical novel, but then swoops into speculative fiction that is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood or Kazuo Ishiguro, with human babies being 'farmed' for nefarious reasons, then back to the historical world and a wonderfully exciting naval stand-off, where Our Hero is saved by his red hair. (You'll have to read it to find out). James Wood, a critic who I admire

Right in the testicles. That's where this book kicked my suspension of disbelief, landing a crunching, foetal-position-inducing blow that was all the more painful for being unexpected.I'm a big fan of David Mitchell's work. I love Cloud Atlas and I've given it as a birthday gift to several friends. Ditto for Ghostwritten, a book I greatly respect for it's blend of narratives and voices, and genres. I enjoyed Numberninedream, and thought Black Swan Green was, well, OK. I dig Mitchell's ability to