![]() ![]() "Miss Kawasemi?" Orito kneels on a stale and sticky futon. He explains that the choice to work with historical fiction was deliberate - a departure from the experimental fiction he wrote earlier in his career. ![]() The novel, Mitchell's fifth, is a departure from his earlier, more experimental works such as Cloud Atlas and Number9Dream. But when he arrives on the island, de Zoet falls in love with a Japanese midwife who has been disfigured in a terrible accident. Mitchell, who has twice been short-listed for the Booker Prize, writes about a young clerk named Jacob de Zoet who travels to Dejima from Batavia to work for several years as a bookkeeper, after which he plans to return to Europe and marry his wealthy fiancee. Much more so, in fact, because there wouldn't have been any smuggled-out footage for YouTube or anything like that." ![]() " a little bit like North Korea is closed off to the world now. " goods materials but also ideas and knowledge on what was happening in the rest of the world," Mitchell tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novelĭavid Mitchell's latest novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, is set in the year 1799, on an island called Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor.Īt the time, Dejima was the Japanese Empire's only trading post where Europeans could trade with Japan, a concept Mitchell says he found absolutely fascinating. ![]()
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