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Der Holländer Jacob de Zoet tritt 1799 auf einem Handelsposten in Japan seinen Dienst an, um einen Grundstock für sich und seine künftige Ehefrau zu verdienen. Durch die Bekanntschaft mit einem Arzt begegnet er der verführerischen Orito ...A thrillingly suspenseful historical novel which brings to life the ordinary - and extraordinary - people caught up in a tectonic shift between East and West. From the author of "Cloud Atlas".
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The number one bestselling novel by 'just about the most audacious, thrilling and, above all, entertaining young British novelist there is' - Observer.
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David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.
In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.
He lives in Ireland.
Der Holländer Jacob de Zoet tritt 1799 auf einem Handelsposten in Japan seinen Dienst an, um einen Grundstock für sich und seine künftige Ehefrau zu verdienen. Durch die Bekanntschaft mit einem Arzt begegnet er der verführerischen Orito ...A thrillingly suspenseful historical novel which brings to life the ordinary - and extraordinary - people caught up in a tectonic shift between East and West. From the author of "Cloud Atlas".
