The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant -- The Times Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful -- Sunday Times Unquestionably a marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation -- Observer A world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat...David Mitchell has done it again. -- Independent on Sunday Arguably his finest...It will doubtless earn Mitchell his fourth Man Booker nomination and, if there's any justice, his first win. -- Sunday Telegraph However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags...Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work. -- Independent Hugely enjoyable...the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate -- Literary Review David Mitchell is back with a bang...superb -- Irish Independent A masterpiece -- Scotsman For a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and simply unforgettable. -- Scotland on Sunday 'Ambitious and fascinating...Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money.' -- Kirkus Reviews Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive -- Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful...a narrative of panoramic span. Mitchell fills his pages with a medley of accents, idioms and speech habits. Prodigiously researched, his book resurrects a place and period with riveting immediacy. ...it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity -- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times My favourite new novel of the year, by a very long way ... People will still be marvelling at THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET decades after last year's award winners have been forgotten. -- Gary Dalkin, Vector, Books of the Year