Full name: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel

Author: David Mitchell Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction Cultures: Japan, Asia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781400065455 9780812976366 1400065453 0812976363

In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company's remotest trading post in a Japan otherwise closed to the outside world. A junior clerk, his task is to uncover evidence of the previous Chief Resident's corruption. Cold-shouldered by his compatriots, Jacob earns the trust of a local interpreter and, more dangerously, becomes intrigued by a rare woman - a midwife permitted to study on Dejima under the company physician. He cannot foresee how disastrously each will be betrayed by someone they trust, nor how intertwined and far-reaching the consequences. Duplicity and integrity, love and lust, guilt and faith, cold murder and strange immortality stalk the stage in this enthralling novel, which brings to vivid life the ordinary - and extraordinary - people caught up in a tectonic shift between East and West. Similar books: The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby Gai-Jin by James Clavell The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz Shogun by James Clavell The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Shike by Robert Shea The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd Sayonara by James A. Michener The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka