The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet Av David Mitchell

<p><h3>''ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY'' <i>INDEPENDENT</i></h3><br><b>⭐ The <i>Sunday Times </i>number one bestseller<br></b><br><b>⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize<br></b><br><b>⭐ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize<br></b><br><b>⭐ Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers'' Prizes<br></b><br>''Thrillingly suspenseful'' <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>''Stunning'' <b><i>Independent on Sunday</i></b><br><br>''A classic'' <b><i>Washington Post</i></b><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><br><h3><b>Praise for David Mitchell</b></h3><br>''A thrilling and gifted writer''<br><b><i>Financial Times<br></i></b><br>''Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good''<br><b><i>Daily Mail<br></i></b><br>''Mitchell is, clearly, a genius''<br><b><i>New York Times Book Review<br></i></b><br>''An author of extraordinary ambition and skill''<br><b><i>Independent on Sunday<br></i></b><br>''A superb storyteller''<br><b><i>New Yorker</i></b></p>