The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet : a novel /
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Summary: | 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: United Kingdom : Sceptre, 2010. |
| Physical Description: | 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781400065455 (acid-free paper) : 1400065453 (acid-free paper) |