{"product_id":"9780340921586","title":"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: Longlisted for the Booker Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Thrillingly suspenseful'\u003cbr\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Stunning'\u003cbr\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Brilliant'\u003cbr\u003eThe Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Entirely Original'\u003cbr\u003eObserve\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A classic'\u003cbr\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sunday Times Number One Best from the Author of Cloud Atlas and Utopia Avenue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the eighteenth century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thrilling and gifted writer\u003cbr\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'\u003cbr\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn author of extraordinary ambition and skill.\u003cbr\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA superb storyteller\u003cbr\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DAVID MITCHELL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46096296804512,"sku":"9780340921586","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/9780340921586.jpg?v=1758390657","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780340921586","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}