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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
- Author
- David Mitchell
- Narrator
- Andrew Wincott, Jemma Redgrave
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 15 October 2020
- Run Time
- 22 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, 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 two hundred 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.
(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Critics Review
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Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful . . . it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity
Sunday Times
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An achingly romantic story of forbidden love . . . Mitchell's incredible prose is on stunning display . . . [it] confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive
New York Times Book Review
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That rare thing - a novel which actually deserves the accolade "tour de force"
Daily Telegraph
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Genres merge and interact like the shimmering colours of a kaleidoscope . . . one story contains multiplicities, woven together with golden thread . . . Dive in and lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance
Independent on Sunday
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Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant . . . He can write as thrillingly about large-scale events as he can about the tiny details of the private world . . . turned one way this novel is a thriller with a glittering seam of a love story running through it (or is it the other way round?); turned another, it is a sumptuous historical novel on the collision of cultures caught at a particular crossroads of history
The Times
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Stunning
Independent on Sunday
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As compelling as it is strange, the novel is testament to the originality of Mitchell's vision and his great craftiness as a storyteller
Times Literary Supplement
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A heady potion of betrayal, love, superstition, power politics and murder . . . And all this in the most extraordinary prose
Sunday Telegraph
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However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags . . . Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work
Independent
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Moving, thoughtful and unexpectedly funny
Observer
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Hugely enjoyable . . . It cracks along, holding us in suspense from the beginning
Literary Review
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Masterpieces make their own rules, and this book is definitely one of them
Scotsman
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David Mitchell is back with a bang . . . superb
Irish Independent
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Ambitious and fascinating . . . Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money
Kirkus Reviews
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A pitch-perfect masterclass in the art, and magic, of narrative
Independent
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A marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation
Observer
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A formidable marvel
New Yorker
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Extraordinarily entertaining and well-realised
Observer
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For a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and simply unforgettable
Scotland on Sunday
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Almost every sentence shimmers with precise, opaque and brilliantly realised writing . . . An historical novel on a deliberately grand scale, it never loses its quiet intimacy
Irish Times
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The details are fascinating and the prose beautiful . . . simply magnificent
Historical Novels Review
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Sharp, hilarious, exhilarating stuff. Utterly enjoyable
Mslexia
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An affecting conclusion underscores Mr Mitchell's mastery here not only of virtuosic literary fireworks, but also of the quieter arts of empathy and traditional storytelling
New York Times
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Dazzles with its density and intensity, its ambition and grandeur
Courier Mail
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Mitchell's masterpiece; and also, I am convinced, a masterpiece of our time
Boston Globe
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The novelist who's shown us fiction's future has written a classic tale . . . an epic of sacrificial love, clashing civilizations and enemies who won't rest until whole family lines have been snuffed out
Washington Post
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A vastly entertaining historical novel, giving the reader a glimpse into a world we know so little of and charting a fascinating period of history
Sydney Morning Herald
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A marvellously wrought novel, full of fully formed characters and the kind of detail that allows you to sink deep into its imaginary world. I was sorry when I finished
Herald Sun
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Details
- Author
- David Mitchell
- Narrator
- Andrew Wincott, Jemma Redgrave
- Duration
- 22 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529340655
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction
Synopsis
**Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell.**The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred 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.(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
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