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~ Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe - 2011
Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor in 1799 is the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company and a de facto prison to the foreigners living there. Into this realm of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, and unstable weather waltzes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk determined to make his fortune and win the hand of the woman he loves . . .
A boldly complex and epically engrossing novel of a rarely visited point in history, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet offers a magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, making it a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable.
“An achingly romantic story of forbidden love with Mitchell’s incredible prose on stunning display, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a novel of ideas, of longing, of good and evil and those who fall somewhere in between." -- The New York Times Book Review