I'm sorry for all the fans of Mitchell, but I didn't like this book at all. I don't know if this was because of the format (audiobook of Audible.com) or the story, but I wasn't interested at all, not in the story and not in the characters. I did find the writing beautiful (that's why I gave it 3 s...
This was a great historical novel focusing on just a few characters and a short span of years. It tells the tale of Dutch clerk Jacob de Zoet, the pious son of a deacon, and his unexpectedly long stay at the Dutch trading post of Dejima, at the time (late 18th/early 19th century) the West's only con...
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