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008			101202s2010 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2009047296
020			_a9781400065455
050	0	0	_aPR6063.I785 _bT47 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC MIT
100	1		_aMitchell, David
245	1	4	_aThe thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet _b: a novel _c/ David Mitchell
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c2010.
300			_a479 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aThe 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 Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiance a cute; back in Holland. But Jacob's original intentions are eclipsed after 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 will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.
650		0	_aEast and west _x--Fiction
650		0	_aTrading posts _v--Fiction
651		0	_aDeshima (Nagasaki-shi, Japan) _v--Fiction
651		0	_aJapan _x--History _y--1787-1868 _v--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c261493 _d261493