The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet *****SIGNED UK HB 1/1 *****

Mitchell, David

ISBN 10: 0340921560 / ISBN 13: 9780340921562

Published by Sceptre, London, 2010

About this Item

1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR DIRECT TO TITLE PAGE. Book in FINE condition, no jckt as published. Longlisted for 2010 Booker Prize.

Seller Inventory # 016272

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet *****SIGNED UK HB 1/1 *****
• Publisher: Sceptre, London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340921560
• ISBN 13: 9780340921562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This is a hardcover edition. It has a fully laminated clear protective cover over the dustjacket, as its former home was a library. Pages are clean - there's ever-so-slight waving to the last 50 pages, barely noticeable. See my other David Mitchell books for sale! Ships fast!

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