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The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell
ID 289695
Slug thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet
Contributors
Author : David Mitchell
Annotation A tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, where readers will be transported to 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, where scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines of two cultures converge. This follows a young Dutch clerk, who arrives to make his fortune, and instead loses his heart
Description Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. A tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, where readers will be transported to 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, where scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines of two cultures converge. This follows a young Dutch clerk, who arrives to make his fortune, and instead loses his heart 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 18th century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. 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.
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
301 Literaire roman, novelle NUR
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Publisher Hodder
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 576
Duration
Publication date first 2011-03-17
Publication date latest 2011-03-17
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  • ISBN: 9780340921586 (BC)
  • ISBN: 9780812982336 (BC)

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