The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet : a novel / David Mitchell.
By: Mitchell, David (David Stephen).
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BookPublisher: New York : Random House, c2010Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: 479 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781400065455 (trade : acidfree paper); 1400065453.Other title: 1,000 autumns of Jacob De Zoet.Subject(s): Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) -- Fiction | Japan -- History -- 1787-1868 -- Fiction | East and West -- Fiction | Trading posts -- Fiction | Deshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) -- Fiction | Japan -- History -- 0-1868 -- Fiction | East and West -- Fiction | Trading posts -- Fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823/.914 | [Fic] Summary: Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finacée, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger.
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Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finacée, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger.
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