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The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet

In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as Japan's outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company. There, Jacob de Zoet has come to make a fortune large enough to return to Holland and marry the woman he loves.

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Main Author:	Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
Corporate Authors:	Recorded Books, LLC, W.F. Howes, Ltd
Other Authors:	Aris, Jonathan (Narrator), Wilcox, Paula (Narrator)
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2010], p2010.
Edition:	Unabridged.
Subjects:	East and West > Fiction. Trading posts > Fiction. Japan > History > 1787-1868 > Fiction. Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) > Fiction. Historical fiction > Japan. Audiobooks.
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Summary:	In 1799, the artificial island of Dejima lies in Nagasaki Harbor as Japan's outpost for the Dutch East Indies Company. There, Jacob de Zoet has come to make a fortune large enough to return to Holland and marry the woman he loves.
Item Description:	Compact disc. Title from container. Release date supplied by publisher. Recording originally produced by W.F. Howes, Ltd., p2010. In container (17 cm.) "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Physical Description:	17 sound discs (19 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Issued also on cassette.
ISBN:	9781440787256 1440787255
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)