The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
David Mitchell
ISBN 10: 1444711555 ISBN 13: 9781444711554
Published by Sceptre, United Kingdom, 2010
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This book is in Fine condition; book and slipcase are clean from marks or damage. Numbered 143 of 500 signed by author. Seller Inventory # 378
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A beautifully designed limited edition of the electrifying new novel by 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent.
Review: Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: David Mitchell reinvents himself with each book, and it's thrilling to watch. His novels like Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas spill over with narrators and language, collecting storylines connected more in spirit than in fact. In The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, he harnesses that plenitude into a more traditional form, a historical novel set in Japan at the turn into the 19th century, when the island nation was almost entirely cut off from the West except for a tiny, quarantined Dutch outpost. Jacob is a pious but not unappealing prig from Zeeland, whose self-driven duty to blurt the truth in a corrupt and deceitful trading culture, along with his headlong love for a local midwife, provides the early engine for the story, which is confined at first to the Dutch enclave but crosses before long to the mainland. Every page is overfull with language, events, and characters, exuberantly saturated in the details of the time and the place but told from a knowing and undeniably modern perspective. It's a story that seems to contain a thousand worlds in one. --Tom Nissley
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Title: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
Publisher: Sceptre, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition.
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THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET - SIGNED, NUMBERED & SLIPCASED LIMITED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2010
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ISBN 10: 1444711555
ISBN 13: 9781444711554
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed & Numbered by David Mitchell. Both Book and Slipcase are in As New condition. A Limited Edition of only 500 copies however the book is still sealed in cellophane, so the number of limitation is unknown. This book is guaranteed to be a 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Publishers number 1 confirms that this book is a first printing. The book is professionally wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that the book arrives at your destination in perfect condition. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001954
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