The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison …
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The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after 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 will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?” ([source][1]) [1]: www.davidmitchellbooks.com/book/the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet/
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479 pages
English language
Published 2010 by Knopf Canada.
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The thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet
469 pages
English language
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Les mille automnes de Jacob de Zoet
711 pages
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Published 2012 by Alto.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Die tausend Herbste des Jacob de Zoet
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Jacob De Zoet'in Bir Sonbahari
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Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Die Tausend Herbste Des Jacob De Zoet (The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet) German Language
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
512 pages
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Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
480 pages
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Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
300 pages
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