In the new translation is a magnificent novel by the modern classic David Mitchell, twice a finalist of the Booker Prize, the author of such intellectual bestsellers as “Sleep No. 9”, “Cloud Atlas” (recently filmed by Tom Tykver and the Wachowski brothers), “The Hungry House” and others. A recognized innovator who has opened new paths in literature has released a charmingly old-fashioned novel in the classical spirit about love and self-sacrifice, about the clash of civilizations, about ruthless enemies who will not rest until they destroy your race to the seventh knee. So, the young clerk Jacob de Zout arrives on the tiny island of Dejima near the huge feudal Japan. Among the clever merchants , treacherous translators and expensive courtesans, he must earn a fortune in five years Enough , to ask the hands of his beloved left in Rotterdam - however, on Dejima, his attention is captured by the young Japanese midwife Orito and the sinister abbot of the distant Enomoto-sensei mountain monastery … “It was for novels such as Jacob de Zout’s Thousand Autumns,” wrote the Daily Telegraph, “that the definition of ‘masterpiece’ was coined.”