Sydney Writers’ Centre interviews acclaimed author David Mitchell. His latest book is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, set in Japan in 1799. It is about a young clerk, Jacob de Zoet, who leaves Holland and his fiancee to go to Japan where he meets the daughter of a Samurai.
David is also author of the novel Black Swan Green, which was selected as one of the “10 Best Books of the Year” by Time and Cloud Atlas, which was a Man Booker Prize finalist
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He has also written critically acclaimed books Number9Dream and Ghostwritten.
Dave Eggers of The New York Times Book Review stated:
“If any readers have doubted that David Mitchell is phenomenally talented and capable of vaulting wonders on the page, they have been heretofore silent. Mitchell is almost universally acknowledged as the real deal. His best-known book Cloud Atlas is one of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is — and should be — read by any student of contemporary fiction…[The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet] confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive.”
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Posted on: 30 May 2011
