The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
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1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.
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Beautiful Narrative submitted by amandaberry on August 26, 2017, 12:53pm Although the story is a bit strange, the telling is superb. Mitchell is a master at writing through time and space and exposing his story from multiple character points of view. Not quite as good as other Mitchell works, but still a worthwhile read.
PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 479 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781400065455 (acid-free paper)
1400065453 (acid-free paper)
SUBJECTS
East and West -- Fiction.
Trading posts -- Fiction.
Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) -- Fiction.
Japan -- History -- 1787-1868 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.