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By purchasing this title, you may be eligible to receive an ebook credit toward select titles. It is a historical novel set during the dutch trading concession with japan in the late 18th century, during the period of japanese history known as sakoku. Jacob is a young, handsome man with high ideals, tremendous and sincere christian faith, and aspires to make something of himself to marry his beloved, anna. The sunday times number one bestseller, from the author of cloud atlas and the bone clocks.
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David mitchell poems for the parish magazine, meeting the late. By the new york times bestselling author of the bone clocks and cloud atlas longlisted for the man booker prizein 2007, time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. A bold and epic novel of a rarely visited point in history, it is a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable. By the new york times bestselling author of the bone clocks and cloud atlas longlisted for the man booker prize in 2007, time magazine named him one. David mitchells novels have captivated critics and readers. Some of the descriptive writing is so breathtakingly, heart achingly adept it cuts like a scalpel through to your heart. David mitchells most recent novel, published in 2010, won nearly as many nominations as all his others combined. Mitchell wears his extensive knowledge of 18th century japan lightly, but uses the ban on any christian books wonderfully and with great literary tension early in jacob s arrival in nagasaki. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 421 pages and is available in hardcover format.
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