David Mitchell THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET Signed Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof
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David Mitchell THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET Signed Limited Edition Uncorrected Proof
First edition first print paperback of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET by David Mitchell and published by Sceptre in 2010. Uncorrected proof copy, number 144 of a limited edition of 200 copies printed. Signed by Mitchell on a bookplate attached to the title page. Single digit '1' on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition with very light curling to the corners and foxing to the page edges. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island that is the Japanese Empires 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. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fianc?e back in Holland.
But Jacobs original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the citys powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacobs worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, Who aint a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?
469 pages
ISBN: N/A
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