David Mitchell - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

The New Yorker“A bit mystifying...” One is impressed, once again, by his immense natural gifts. It would be perverse to hold his natural facility against him. Yet the book is still a conventional historical novel, and drags with it some of the fake heirlooms of the genre...

The New York Times“One of the more fascinating and fearless­writers alive...” It’s a novel of ideas, of longing, of good and evil and those who fall somewhere in between. There are no easy answers or facile connections in this book. In fact, it’s not an easy book, period...

Guardian“Conjures up a profoundly researched and fully realised world...” This may not, quite, be a masterpiece, but it is unquestionably a marvel – entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation...

The Independent“Spins fresh creatures from a prodigious creative DNA...” However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags. Its author often risks pastiche but writes with such invigorating edge and dash that scarcely a sentence stands idle. Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity...

The Telegraph“Formidable talent...” Mitchell situates his reflections on freedom and enslavement, reason and faith, in a fast-verging-on-breathless narrative that makes full and delighted use of the ripping yarn tool kit.

Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

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