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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet By David Mitchell

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell


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Summary

The exhilarating new novel by 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Summary

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 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.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Reviews

Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant...He can write as thrillingly about large-scale events as he can about the tiny details of the private world. Such fluent and masterful command of both domains seems the stuff of a true artist's gifts The Times Unquestionably a marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation Observer Mitchell gives us a world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat...dive in and lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance. David Mitchell has done it again. Independent on Sunday Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful...it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity. Sunday Times Arguably his finest...Every sentence yields glorious surprises that no one else could think up...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 Hugely enjoyable...the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate Literary Review David Mitchell is back with a bang...superb Irish Independent For a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and simply unforgettable. Scotland on Sunday 'Ambitious and fascinating...Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money.' Kirkus Reviews A masterpiece Scotsman My favourite new novel of the year, by a very long way ... People will still be marvelling at THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET decades after last year's award winners have been forgotten. Gary Dalkin, Vector, Books of the Year

About David Mitchell

David Mitchell's first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his third novel, CLOUD ATLAS, was shortlisted for six awards including the Man Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Best Literary Fiction and South Bank Show Literature Prize. His previous novel, BLACK SWAN GREEN, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award.

Additional information

GOR002003146
9780340921562
0340921560
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hodder & Stoughton
2010-05-13
480
Short-listed for Galaxy National Book Awards: Waterstone's UK Author of the Year 2010
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