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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an historical fiction novel by British author David Mitchell published by Sceptre in 2010. It is set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th-century, during the period of Japanese history known as Sakoku.
May 13, 2010 · The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet begins well, and presents an interesting set of characters in a colorful setting. Young Dutch Clerk Jacob De Zoet arrives at a trading island off the coast of 1799 Japan, where he is to work as a clerk for the Dutch Easy India company.
Mar 8, 2011 · The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel. Paperback – March 8, 2011. The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay.
Jul 1, 2010 · David Mitchell’s historical novel about a Dutchman in Edo-era Japan is an achingly romantic story of forbidden love.
Acclaimed British novelist David Mitchell published The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet in 2010. This work explores the relationship between the Dutch East Indies Company and Japan in the 18th century, a time when Japan was desperately trying to avoid becoming “contaminated” by outside influence. The novel follows the lives of a Dutch ...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a stunning departure for this brilliant, restless, and wildly ambitious author, a giant leap forward by even his own high standards. A bold and epic novel of a rarely visited point in history, it is a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable.
Jun 29, 2010 · 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.
Jun 29, 2010 · The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a stunning departure for this brilliant, restless, and wildly ambitious author, a giant leap forward by even his own high...
May 13, 2010 · 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...
May 13, 2010 · A love story, an adventure, a study of corruption and a glimpse into a hidden world - David Mitchell’s novel is a historical fiction like no other. For over 150 years, the island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbour has been the only point of contact between Japan and Europe.
