Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

''ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY'' INDEPENDENT ⭐ The Sunday Times number one bestseller ⭐ Longlisted for the Booker Prize ⭐ Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize ⭐ Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers'' Prizes ''Thrillingly suspenseful'' Sunday Times ''Stunning'' Independent on Sunday ''A classic'' Washington Post In 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. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity