The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Novel
by David Mitchell
Recommended by Patrick OShaughnessy and Caterina Fake
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh cr...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Caterina Fake
“A fiction recommendation. | Outstanding book. Talk about immersive. Few other epic fiction books that left me wowed: thousand autumn’s of Jacob de Zoet by Mitchell cloud atlas by Mitchell a fraction of the whole by Toltz”
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