Download The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet AudioBook Free
The Sunday Times NUMBER 1 Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS.Longlisted for the person Booker Prize 2010In the hands is a location like no other: a little, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the only real gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying times of the 18th century, a young Dutch clerk comes to make his bundle of money. Instead he loses his center.Step onto the roads of Dejima and mingle with scheming investors, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two ethnicities converge. In an account of integrity and problem, passion and vitality, the key is control - of riches and thoughts, and over fatality itself.
