THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET

A panoramic novel set in Japan in the year 1799, from the author of "Cloud Atlas" etc. The port of Nagasaki and the island of Dejima has been shut off from the world for centuries; no one can leave and foreigners are excluded. But an artificial island is manned by a handful of European traders, and for Dutch clerk Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin. 'One of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' "Independent"