ngracilla 's review for:

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

4.0

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Three interwoven stories take the reader from Nagasaki and a pirate-ridden world of import/exports to forbidden mountains filled with strict protocols and magical realism in this historical fiction set in the early 1800s. Intregues, trysts, missed opportunities, betrayals, translations, and power are ongoing themes. A great read.