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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. By: Mitchell, David

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Mississauga, ON L5N 3E6(View Map)

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Book is clean, bright and unmarked. No tears or creases. The binding is straight and tight. The book itself is in pristine condition. Title: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Publisher: Knopf Canada, Mississauga, ON, Canada Publication Date: 2010 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: As New Dust Jacket Condition: As New Edition: 1st Edition Review: Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: David Mitchell reinvents himself with each book, and it's thrilling to watch. His novels like Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas spill over with narrators and language, collecting storylines connected more in spirit than in fact. In The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, he harnesses that plenitude into a more traditional form, a historical novel set in Japan at the turn into the 19th century, when the island nation was almost entirely cut off from the West except for a tiny, quarantined Dutch outpost. Jacob is a pious but not unappealing prig from Zeeland, whose self-driven duty to blurt the truth in a corrupt and deceitful trading culture, along with his headlong love for a local midwife, provides the early engine for the story, which is confined at first to the Dutch enclave but crosses before long to the mainland. Every page is overfull with language, events, and characters, exuberantly saturated in the details of the time and the place but told from a knowing and undeniably modern perspective. It's a story that seems to contain a thousand worlds in one. --Tom Nissley

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