The Booksmith (Venue Partner)
1644 Haight St
415.863.8688
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Thursday July 22, 2010 (7:30pm)
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“When author David Mitchell lived in Nagasaki, Japan, he got off a streetcar at the wrong stop and unintentionally found himself at Dejima. This man-made island was getting restored to its original Edo-period state, when it was created as a contact point for relations with the West. The island inspired Mitchell's latest book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. His meticulously detailed rendering is an intricate love story set in Shogunate Japan and tonight you're invited to listen as he reads excerpts from his tale.”
Daniel Hirsch, Flavorpill
The Booksmith says:
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. As with all Mitchell novels, fates intertwine, human choices and mistakes shift the course of events in unexpected ways, and delicate questions of identity, foreignness, and interconnectedness are raised.
