{"product_id":"the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet-9780340921586","title":"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003e''ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY'' \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers'' Prizes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Thrillingly suspenseful''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Stunning''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Brilliant''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Entirely original''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A classic''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Number One bestseller from the author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUtopia Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the eighteenth century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStep onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful\u003c\/b\u003e . . . it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eachingly romantic\u003c\/b\u003e story of forbidden love . . . Mitchell's \u003cb\u003eincredible prose is on stunning display\u003c\/b\u003e . . . [it] confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive -- Dave Eggers * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eThat rare thing - a novel which actually deserves the accolade \"\u003cb\u003etour de force\u003c\/b\u003e\" -- Kamila Shamsie, Books of the Year * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eGenres merge and interact like the shimmering colours of a kaleidoscope . . . one story contains multiplicities, woven together with golden thread . . . Dive in and lose yourself in \u003cb\u003ea world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance\u003c\/b\u003e -- Katy Guest * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eCompared with almost everything being written now, it is \u003cb\u003evertiginously ambitious - and brilliant \u003c\/b\u003e. . . He can write as thrillingly about large-scale events as he can about the tiny details of the private world . . . turned one way this novel is a thriller with a glittering seam of a love story running through it (or is it the other way round?); turned another, it is a sumptuous historical novel on the collision of cultures caught at a particular crossroads of history -- Neel Mukherjee * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStunning\u003c\/b\u003e -- Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs compelling as it is strange\u003c\/b\u003e, the novel is testament to the originality of Mitchell's vision and his great craftiness as a storyteller * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eA heady potion of betrayal, love, superstition, power politics and murder . . . And all this in\u003cb\u003e the most extraordinary prose\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eHowever densely charted and richly sketched, this \u003cb\u003esumptuous \u003c\/b\u003eimbroglio never drags . . . Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoving\u003c\/b\u003e, thoughtful and unexpectedly funny -- Books of the Year * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHugely enjoyable\u003c\/b\u003e . . . It cracks along, holding us in suspense from the beginning * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasterpieces make their own rules\u003c\/b\u003e, and this book is definitely one of them * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eDavid Mitchell is back with a bang . . . \u003cb\u003esuperb\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmbitious and fascinating\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA pitch-perfect masterclass\u003c\/b\u003e in the art, and magic, of narrative -- Books of the Year * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA marvel - entirely original\u003c\/b\u003e among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA formidable marvel\u003c\/b\u003e * New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExtraordinarily entertaining \u003c\/b\u003eand well-realised -- A. S. Byatt * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eFor a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and \u003cb\u003esimply unforgettable\u003c\/b\u003e -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eAlmost every sentence shimmers with precise, opaque and \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly realised \u003c\/b\u003ewriting . . . An historical novel on a deliberately grand scale, it never loses its quiet intimacy * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe details are fascinating and the prose beautiful . . . simply \u003cb\u003emagnificent\u003c\/b\u003e * Historical Novels Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharp, hilarious, exhilarating \u003c\/b\u003estuff. Utterly enjoyable * Mslexia *\u003cbr\u003eAn affecting conclusion underscores Mr Mitchell's mastery here not only of\u003cb\u003e virtuosic literary fireworks\u003c\/b\u003e, but also of the quieter arts of empathy and traditional storytelling -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDazzles\u003c\/b\u003e with its density and intensity, its ambition and grandeur * Courier Mail *\u003cbr\u003eMitchell's masterpiece; and also, I am convinced, \u003cb\u003ea masterpiece of our time\u003c\/b\u003e * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eThe novelist who's shown us fiction's future has written a \u003cb\u003eclassic \u003c\/b\u003etale . . . an epic of sacrificial love, clashing civilizations and enemies who won't rest until whole family lines have been snuffed out * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003evastly entertaining\u003c\/b\u003e historical novel, giving the reader a glimpse into a world we know so little of and charting a fascinating period of history * Sydney Morning Herald *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003emarvellously wrought \u003c\/b\u003enovel, full of fully formed characters and the kind of detail that allows you to sink deep into its imaginary world. 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