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Also by David Mitchell:

The Bone Clocks, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Cloud Atlas, October 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, March 2011
Hardcover
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, July 2010
Hardcover
Black Swan Green, April 2006
Hardcover

THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET
By: David Mitchell

Random House Trade Paperbacks
March 2011
On Sale: March 8, 2011
512 pages
ISBN: 0812976363
EAN: 9780812976366
Hardcover
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Fiction

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout 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 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.

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Fresh Air - NPR - April 1, 2011