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David Mitchell

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When

Thursday July 22, 2010 (7:30pm)

Where

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The Booksmith (Venue Partner)

1644 Haight St

415.863.8688

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Price

Free

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Note:

Preferred seating vouchers available with the purchase of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet at the Booksmith, beginning June 29. There are a limited number of seating vouchers; we suggest purchasing your copy early if you would like one.

The Booksmith says…

A postmodern visionary, linguistic virtuoso, and sage of deep human feeling, David Mitchell has rightly earned international acclaim, a fireplace mantle of prizes, and a slavishly devoted readership. His fiction overflows with ecstatically rich language, dry humor, cliff hangers, plot twists, extraordinary characters, and imagination. All those pleasures and more await you in Mitchell's long-awaited, hotly-anticipated new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

 

Mitchell has spent the past four years in Japan and Holland researching and writing this novel, so it is no surprise that it is chockablock full of gorgeous historical detail intertwined with his boundless imagination. Set in the mysterious, atmospheric coastal Japan of 1799, this tale follows an earnest, nerdy Dutch accountant fresh off the boat as he loses himself in a swirling, silken world of Japanese intrigue and danger — dangers that only grow stronger and more ethereal as the novel unfolds.

 

Co-sponsored by The Asia Society.

 

 

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