The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet – David Mitchell

Wonderful.

Finely researched on both the empire of the Dutch East India Company and Japan’s traditional, closed society of the same era, with wonderful characters – good, bad and ugly – David Mitchell has done a brilliant job of bringing to life a remote era and distant part of the world.

Coming to the end of the story on the overnight train from Berlin to Paris, I cried.

Amazon.co.uk link: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet – David Mitchell