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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.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
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- Released
- 2011
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Mitchell
- Publisher
- Random House LCC US
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0812982339
- ISBN13
- 9780812982336
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Business, Adventure, Love, Friendship, Military Fiction, Wars, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Japan, English Literature, Asia, Culture, 18th century, Intrigues, Netherlands, Cults, Lakes, Colonization, settlement, Sailors, Japanese people, Nagasaki, Go (Game)
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.