The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel Vanessa Chan Or maybe it’s Janine

Or maybe it’s Janine

it’s an invitation to explore language

Sasha seems plain

all that changes

dented or something

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel Vanessa Chan Or maybe it’s JanineBy the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empires single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient