Set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, most of the action of The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet takes place on Dejima, an artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki off the coast of Japan. The central character, Jacob, is a conscientious clerk working for the Dutch East India Co...
Thousand Autumns is truly one of those magical books capable of transporting you to a completely different time and place. Meticulously researched and constructed, the novel builds a world full of excruciating detail that passes even this historian's fine tooth comb. Fair warning: my review may be b...
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...
I believe that David Mitchell may be, of all the contemporary authors I've read, one of the most versatile. Although I could simply be mistakenly (again) be viewing his work as versatile. I believe there are meant to be some more of his meta-linguistic features in this book. Although I didn't stop a...
I loved this book. Completely different in structure to Cloud Atlas, but beautifully observed, fascinating detail, particularly about a period in history I didn't know much about. Although the story at the heart of the book is horrific, the characters are so engaging and the situation so complex tha...
David Mitchell is a fabulous storyteller. I complained here and there about the writing but by halfway through I was addicted to "The Thousand Autumns" - it was imaginative and moving and richly drawn. The core of the story is pretty way-out, though hardly impossible, and I admired that. I especiall...
After reading 'Cloud Atlas,' I wanted to read something else by Mitchell, and this is the one that showed up on paperbackswap!Describing it to someone last night, I said: "Well, it starts off historical, gets a little bit fantastic, becomes absolutely horrific, but mostly it's historical."Set in 179...
The story of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a divide during a turbulent historical period is the staple of many an historical novel. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, at first glane, is just that: however, the author has entered uncharted waters by venturing into an area which is seldom e...
This is a marvelous historical novel about Japan in the early 1800's when they were an isolated country, by their own choice. Only the Dutch were allowed to trade with Japan and they were confined to a small port in Nagasaki. Jacob de Zoet arrives to make his fortune in a corrupt world of trade. H...
David Mitchell and I had not been introduced before. I knew he had written something about clouds and dreams and this looked pretty so I took it home with me. It is a book about Jacob de Zoet, who in 1799 arrives as a clerk on Dejima, an artificial island near Nagasaki and the only point of contact ...
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