Medias
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Z
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Technical specifications
Release date | March 08th 2011 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Knopf Canada |
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Accessibility | No information is available regarding the accessibility of the format Paper |