Book description
David Mitchell's novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as
his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year
award attest. Now he has written a masterpiece. The Thousand Autumns of
Jacob de Zoet is the kind of book that comes along once in a decade -
enthralling in its storytelling, imagination and scope. Set at a turning
point in history on a tiny island attached to mainland Japan, David
Mitchell's tale of power, passion and integrity transports us to a world
that is at once exotic and familiar: an extraordinary place and an era
when news from abroad took months to arrive, yet when people behaved as
they always do - loving, lusting and yearning, cheating, fighting and
killing. Bringing to vivid life a tectonic shift between East and West,
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is dramatic, funny, heartbreaking,
enlightening and thought-provoking. Reading it is an unforgettable
experience.
