DAVID MITCHELL / The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Michael Krasny interviews David Mitchell on KQED's Forum, Wednesday, July 21 at 10 AM
Front Page New York Times Review by Dave Eggers
A postmodern visionary, linguistic virtuoso, and sage of deep human feeling, David Mitchell has rightly earned international acclaim, a fireplace mantle of prizes, and a slavishly devoted readership. His fiction overflows with ecstatically rich language, dry humor, cliff hangers, plot twists, extraordinary characters, and imagination. All those pleasures and more await you in Mitchell’s long-awaited, hotly-anticipated new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.
Mitchell has spent the past four years in
With superstitions, samurai and swamp fever, kimonos,
crocodiles and courtesans, the brutal but dazzling world of feudal
David Mitchell is a two-time Booker Prize finalist, a Time magazine 100 Most Influential
People, and a Granta Best Young
British Novelist. His first novel, Ghostwritten,
was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John
Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under 36 and a Guardian
First Book Award finalist. His second novel, Number9Dream, was a finalist for the Booker Prize and the James
Tait Black Memorial Prize. His third novel, Cloud
Atlas, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics
Circle Award, and was an international bestseller. His most recent novel, Black Swan Green, was long-listed for
the Booker Prize and named a Times Best Book of the Year. He lives in
Preferred seating vouchers available with the purchase of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet at The Booksmith, beginning June 29.
The Paris Review interviews David Mitchell
James Wood's New Yorker essay on David Mitchell
"David Mitchell Bends Fiction": The New York Times profile
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