by David Mitchell · Hodder & Stoughton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340921593
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«The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet» is the historical novel by David Mitchell, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (576 pages, in English).
On Dejima, an artificial island in Nagasaki Bay and for two centuries the only gateway between Japan and the West, Jacob de Zoet, a young Dutch clerk, lands in 1799. Among merchants, spies, interpreters and servants, the novel interweaves integrity and corruption, passion and power, and the control of wealth and minds.
The Hodder & Stoughton edition is from 2011; the novel was originally published in 2010. The work was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and for those who know David Mitchell from his novel Cloud Atlas.
Vice-Admiral Sir David Mitchell was a Royal Navy officer and courtier who served as the Black Rod from 1698 to 1710.
