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A love story, an adventure, a study of corruption and a glimpse into a hidden world - David Mitchell’s novel is a historical fiction like no other.For over 150 years, the island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbour has been the only point of contact between Japan and Europe. Foreign traders are forbidden to leave the island while the Japanese may not travel beyond their native country. Yet through the porthole of Dejima, the new learning of the Enlightenment seeps into the Shogun’s cloistered realm, while tales of a mysterious land seep out. In 1799, Jacob de Zoet arrives on Dejima. He has an unpleasant - perhaps dangerous - task to perform."The Thousand Autumns is a strange, chimeric creation. It’s deeply researched, like a proper historical drama, but it’s also luridly melodramatic, like a 19th century adventure story ... There are twists and turns in the plot, but they happen within the safe confines of genre, and so can’t be truly surprising... Part of the novel’s cleverness is that these tropes strike Jacob as unreal, too, as he combs through the company’s books on Dejima: In some ways, he’s a 19th century man trapped in the 18th century. But it’s also the case that The Thousand Autu

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Author

Mitchell, David (David Stephen)

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781848945036

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Cooking

Rating

4.03 / 5 (36,629 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14