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    The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

    Written by David Mitchell

    Narrated by Jonathan Aris and Paula Wilcox

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    About this audiobook

    Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas. Set in Japan in 1799, a young Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, is about to embark on a strange adventure of duplicity, love and murder is about to begin - and all the while the axis of global power is turning...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Audio
    Release dateJan 5, 2010
    ISBN9781407459059
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