The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT
⭐ The Sunday Times number one bestseller
⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize
⭐ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
⭐ Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes
'Thrillingly suspenseful' Sunday Times
'Stunning' Independent on Sunday
'A classic' Washington Post In 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. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself.
Praise for David Mitchell
'A thrilling and gifted writer'
Financial Times
'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'
Daily Mail
'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'
New York Times Book Review
'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'
Independent on Sunday
'A superb storyteller'
New Yorker

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections. In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight. He lives in Ireland.