![]() ![]() ![]() Jacob hopes to make his fortune working under Chief Vorstenbosch and the Dutch East India Company to pay for the dowry of his betrothed, Anna. Jacob de Zoet, working as a clerk on a Dutch merchant ship, arrives at the island of Dejima, midway through an ad hoc trial of Daniel Snitker, the acting chief of a factory on the island. In 1799, Japanese midwife Orito Aibagawa helps deliver the baby of Magistrate Shiroyama. It tells the story of a Dutch trader's love for a Japanese midwife who is spirited away into a sinister mountain temple cult. The novel begins in the summer of 1799 at the Dutch East India Company trading post Dejima in the harbor of Nagasaki. It is set during the Dutch trading concession with Japan in the late 18th-century, during the period of Japanese history known as Sakoku. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an historical fiction novel by British author David Mitchell published by Sceptre in 2010. ![]()
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