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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
Brilliant, moving, and grand in scope - despite its truncated geographic space and chronological duration, Mitchell's novel transverses vast spaces of the heart and the mind. Thousand Autumns wraps the reader in a many-layered gauze of emotions, details, and memory. It's never cloying, but usually delicate and precise, and it takes care to be sympathetic and even, one thinks, authentic in its representations. Stories spill from the novel's pages and, at long last, though it felt ever so quick, it ends in bittersweet melancholy, like all your best memories. Gorgeously framed and impressively plotted, it truly feels like an autumnal eternity.