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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, A Novel
by David Mitchell
- LITERATURE
- 2011
- PAPER
- 479 PAGES
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The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor -- the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there.
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