THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET

Book ID/图书代码： 03540009B32440

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Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事背景：
過去，長崎以日本貿易港出名。1570年長崎對外開港，同葡萄牙及中國明朝商船往來。1641年之後，日本閉關自守，長崎是唯一的國際貿易港《江戶時代的江戶幕府進行鎖國政策》，劃定出島作為對外貿易地帶，荷蘭、中國的商人在新地一帶居留。
故事發生在1799年，地點是長崎港的出島─當時日本的鎖國政策將西方文化阻絕在外，令出島這個地方成為日本和外邊世界的唯一聯繫，只有荷蘭和中國商人能在此進行貿易。
在這樣的歷史背景下，出島這個時有地震與颱風來襲的地方，聚集了各路人士，包含狡猾的奸商、會騙人的口譯員、索價高昂的妓女…
而故事主角Jacob De Zoet 是抱著東方淘金夢的荷蘭人，在東方待了五年之久的他，希望有朝一日能賺得一筆財富讓他能夠回荷蘭迎娶家境富裕的未婚妻。
不過這個打算在他遇到面容毀損的Orito後開始有了轉變。Orito的父親是有武士身分的醫生，她則是為城裡面的權勢家庭擔任助產士。
兩人的相遇與發展非Zoet所料，而最後因此要付出的代價，也遠比他最壞的打算更糟，如同他毒舌的同事所言：「在輝煌的東方世界，誰不是投注自己的人生做為賭注，在這個地方進行一場賭局….」(Ruby & Kate Cheng)

Awards/获奖情况：已入围2010年布克獎

紐約時報排行榜 -7月19日Hardcover Fiction本書名列 TOP 11
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★　被紐約時報譽為「天才」的David Mitche再度超越自己，與一堆重量書評家期待的鉅作
★　榮登亞馬遜七月選書
★　亞馬遜近五顆星滿級評價
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New Yorker：「無論從何種標準來評價這本書，結論都是這是一本曠世傑作。」
亞馬遜：「David Mitche在這一本書裡頭藏了ㄧ千個世界。」
紐約時報書評：「如果有任何一位讀者對David Mitche的才氣還有疑慮，那這本書將讓他們啞口無言。」

In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world.
He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize.
The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.”
★　作者前作「雲圖」為誠品2009年選書
★ 簡體已售

Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: David Mitchell reinvents himself with each book, and it’s thrilling to watch. His novels like Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas spill over with narrators and language, collecting storylines connected more in spirit than in fact. In The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, he harnesses that plenitude into a more traditional form, a historical novel set in Japan at the turn into the 19th century, when the island nation was almost entirely cut off from the West except for a tiny, quarantined Dutch outpost. Jacob is a pious but not unappealing prig from Zeeland, whose self-driven duty to blurt the truth in a corrupt and deceitful trading culture, along with his headlong love for a local midwife, provides the early engine for the story, which is confined at first to the Dutch enclave but crosses before long to the mainland. Every page is overfull with language, events, and characters, exuberantly saturated in the details of the time and the place but told from a knowing and undeniably modern perspective. It’s a story that seems to contain a thousand worlds in one.---Tom Nissley

"If any readers have doubted that David Mitchell is phenomenally talented and capable of vaulting wonders on the page, they have been heretofore silent. Mitchell is almost universally acknowledged as the real deal. His best-known book "Cloud Atlas" is one of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? Modern classics that no doubt is -- and should be -- read by any student of contemporary fiction… [The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet] confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive."---DAVE EGGERS, COVER OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"By any standards, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is a formidable marvel."---THE NEW YORKER

"...underscores Mr. Mitchell’s mastery here not only of virtuosic literary fireworks, but also of the quieter arts of empathy and traditional storytelling."---The New York Times

About the Author/作者介绍： 大衛‧米契爾（David Mitchell），一九六九年出生於愛爾蘭，在肯特大學主修英美文學、比較文學。在日本廣島擔任工程系學生的英文教師八年。風格獨創的處女作《靈魂寫手》（Ghostwritten, 1999）被評選為「三十五歲以下作家年度最佳著作」，獲頒《週日郵報》萊斯文學獎（John Llewellyn Rhys Prize），並入圍《衛報》小說新人獎決選。
最有村上春樹風的《九號夢想》（number9dream, 2001）入圍該年度曼布克獎與布萊克小說紀念獎（James Tait Black Memorial Prize）決選。二○○三年為《葛蘭塔雜誌》（Granta）選為英國最優秀年輕小說家。強烈表現結合東西方思想企圖心的《雲圖》（Cloud Atlas, 2004），與自傳體小說《黑天鵝綠》（Black Swan Green, 2006），都入圍了曼布克獎決選。
被譽為英國最重要的新生代作家。在小說風格上有革命性的創新，從保羅‧奧斯特、馬丁‧艾米斯、村上春樹中汲取養分，哺育出全然原創且獨特的風格，二 ○○七年被美國《時代》雜誌遴選為「影響世界最重要的一百位藝文人物」。(資料來源：誠品網路書店: http://www.eslite.com/product.aspx?pgid=1001118561878936)

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：最新版權銷售update 共十國:
Ailantus (Holland), Rowohlt (Germany), Editions de l’Olivier (France), Frassinelli (Italy), Duomo (Spain), Shanghai Literature and Art (China), Ellinika Grammata (Greece), Eksmo (Russia), Companhia das Letras (Brazil) and Mag (Poland).

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