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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Narrated by: Jemma Redgrave, Andrew Wincott
- Length: 22 hrs and 39 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Sunday Times number one best seller, from the author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010.
Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for 200 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-05-2023
Brilliantly
Brilliantly written by a master. Who would have thought a bovel written about a Dutch trading post in 1800 Japan would be so entertaining. Wonderfull characters, some of whom I have discovered transcend to his other novels.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-11-2020
masterpiece I was there , an exhilerated observer
as the characters were magically brought to life , I felt shocked , awestruck and excited . The rythmn of the writing and narration took me to a Japan I did not know , yet brought great understandings into the cultures of times past . There is always something in David's books that brings deeper meaning .
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- Eduard Padilla
- 28-04-2021
excellent story and narration
an immersive story of human nature and a Dutch trading post in Japan in the 18 and 19th centuries
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