The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Resumen del libro

A panoramic novel set in Japan in the year 1799, from the author of Cloud Atlas etc. The port of Nagasaki and the island of Dejima has been shut off from the world for centuries; no one can leave and foreigners are excluded. But an artificial island is manned by a handful of European traders, and for Dutch clerk Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin.

Biografía del autor

David Mitchell was born in Southport in January, 1969.<br><br>His first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under 35 and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.<br><br>His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.<br><br>His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He has since published Black Swan Green (longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (longisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize). His most recent book, The Bone Clocks, is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.<br><br>In 2003 he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.<br><br>David Mitchell now lives in Ireland.