Yet the learning of the Enlightenment seeps into Japan, and mysterious tales slip out via interpreters.ĭe Zoet’s investigation makes him unpopular with his colleagues, but he is befriended by Interpreter Ogawa and becomes drawn to one of the few women on the island, Orito, a midwife. Foreign traders are forbidden to leave the VOC trading fortress, and the Japanese cannot leave their native land. For over a century, the VOC has been the only point of contact between Japan and Europe. In 1799, Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) clerk Jacob de Zoet arrives on Dejima in Nagasaki Harbour to uncover the previous chief’s malpractice.
Japan is the ‘land of a thousand autumns’. David Mitchell has written an historical novel which equals if not surpasses the originality of his previous prize-listed works including Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green.
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