The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

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'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT<br>⭐ The Sunday Times number one bestseller<br>⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize<br>⭐ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize<br>⭐ Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes<br>'Thrillingly suspenseful' Sunday Times<br><br>'Stunning' Independent on Sunday<br><br>'A classic' Washington Post<br><br>In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the eighteenth century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.<br><br>Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself.<br><br>Praise for David Mitchell<br>'A thrilling and gifted writer'<br>Financial Times<br><br>'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'<br>Daily Mail<br><br>'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'<br>New York Times Book Review<br><br>'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'<br>Independent on Sunday<br><br>'A superb storyteller'<br>New Yorker

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780340921586

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 40 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.