.jpg)
I had not read David Mitchell before but heard about him with the movie ‘Cloud Atlas’. He is the author of the book to that movie. I knew he must have written well otherwise his book wouldn’t turn into a movie. And the book “Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet ” looked pretty so I took it home with me after Ms. Luckner showed me the book for Summer Reading Challenge.It is a book about Jacob de Zoet, who in 1799 arrives as a clerk on Dejima, an artificial island near Nagasaki and the only point of contact between Japan and the outside world. It is also a book about an English ship and a mountain shrine and secret religious cult. It is a book about Orito, Japanese midwife whose face is half burnt but the book’s most noble characters seem to fall in love with despite that. This book is about so many things in so many different ways that it is quite difficult to write anything coherent about the plot.
Ramazan Dicle 