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The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet a novel

1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds...

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Main Author: Mitchell, David
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, c2010.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
East and West > Fiction.
Trading posts > Fiction.
Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) > Fiction.
Japan > History > 1787-1868 > Fiction.
Historical fiction. > Japan.
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Summary: 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.
Item Description: Originally published: United Kingdom : Sceptre, 2010.
Physical Description: 479 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781400065455 (acid-free paper) :
1400065453 (acid-free paper)
Author Notes: David Mitchell was born in Merseyside, England on January 12, 1969. He received a degree in English and American literature and an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Kent. Before becoming a full-time writer, he taught English to technical students in Japan. His first novel, Ghostwritten, was published in 1999 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Two of his novels, Number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2012, Cloud Atlas was made into a major motion picture film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. His other works include Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, and Slade House. He and his wife translated into English a book written by an autistic 13-year-old Japanese boy entitled The Reason I Jump.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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