Bad dreams follow, then I'm wakin', swayin' this way an' that way, like I'm out at sea, but I'm squashed underbodies like agrape in a wine press, and I think, I'm dreamin' still, but that cold puke bungin' up my earhole weren't no dream ...
The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books seems entirely different from that which preceded it.” The Thousand Autumns of ...
In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself. 'Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive' - New York Times Book Review
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
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The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books seems entirely different from that which preceded it.” The Thousand Autumns of ...
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbour, the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window onto the world.