The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet  -  David Mitchell

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The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancee back in Holland. But Jacob's original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured mid...
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2011 Uitgever: Random House 518 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0812982339 ISBN-13: 9780812982336