The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
of David Mitchell
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The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the âhigh-walled, fan-shaped artificial islandâ that is the Japanese Empireâs 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 fiancĂ©e back in Holland.But Jacobâs original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the cityâs 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 Jacobâs worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, âWho ainât a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?âA 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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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 479 pages
- Publisher Random House
- Publication Date June 29th 2010
- First Publication 05/13/10
- Language English
- ISBN 9781400065455
- Edition U.S. Edition
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Dejima (Japan)']
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