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Be transported to 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 18th-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.
| ISBN | 0340921587 | | Pages | 576 | | ISBN13 | 9780340921586
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 390 | | Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Sceptre | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 132 | | Publication date | 17 Mar 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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'Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant' -- The Times 'Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful' -- Sunday Times 'Unquestionably a marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation' -- Observer 'A world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat...David Mitchell has done it again.' -- Independent on Sunday 'Arguably his finest...It will doubtless earn Mitchell his fourth Man Booker nomination and, if there's any justice, his first win.' -- Sunday Telegraph 'However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags...Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work.' -- Independent 'Hugely enjoyable...the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate' -- Literary Review 'David Mitchell is back with a bang...superb' -- Irish Independent 'A masterpiece' -- Scotsman 'For a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and simply unforgettable.' -- Scotland on Sunday 'Ambitious and fascinating...Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money.' -- Kirkus Reviews 'Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive' -- Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review 'spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful...a narrative of panoramic span. Mitchell fills his pages with a medley of accents, idioms and speech habits. Prodigiously researched, his book resurrects a place and period with riveting immediacy. ...it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity' -- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times "My favourite new novel of the year, by a very long way ... People will still be marvelling at THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET decades after last year's award winners have been forgotten." -- Gary Dalkin, Vector, Books of the Year  Be the first to write a customer review
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