How did our book club discussion of the thousand autumns of. Thornapple bookworms unbroken laura hillenbrand tuesday night book club still. Jacob is a young, handsome man with high ideals, tremendous and sincere christian faith, and aspires to make something of. He also answered questions on cloud atlas, his inspirations, writing style and love of languages.
Its historical fiction at its finest, with detailed character work and fantastic storytelling throughout. He has been nominated for the man booker prize five times and hailed as the novelist whos shown us fictions future washington post, as. Its pages boast enough intricate turns to invite lingering. This book is a kind of unusual one and its different to what normally read so an interesting one to discuss. Not only is the novel, set in japan at the end of the 18th century, the least. She slips between the bigger, taller onlookers unnoticed. All in all, much of what i enjoyed most about cloud atlas the colorful characters and. Jacob is a young, handsome man with high ideals, tremendous and sincere christian faith, and aspires to make something of himself to marry his beloved, anna. Connections abound with that last one, noted alex miller, jr. It is a historical novel set during the dutch trading concession with japan in the late 18th century, during the period of japanese history known as sakoku. As one cynical colleague asks, who aint a gambler in the glorious orient, with his very life. I enjoyed it and will warn the reader that it moves a bit slower than some audiobooks that i have read.
David mitchell reinvents himself with each book, and its thrilling to watch. However, sometimes entertainment is a long road and not a short sprint. Hes been hired to audit the companys books and clean up rampant corruption, which is a difficult task because of just how widespread and universal bribery and skimming have become. After david mitchells 2004 novel, cloud atlas, nested six competing eras within each other for a genrebending fantasy, 2006s followup, black swan green, felt fairly or otherwise like a deliberate narrowing of scope. David mitchells most recent novel, published in 2010, won nearly as many nominations as all his others combined. Join the georgetown book club for its very last meeting at the interim location before we move to book hill park. Twice shortlisted for the man booker prize, mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by time in 2007. David mitchells most recent novel, published in 2010, won. In the thousand autumns of jacob desoet, mitchell puts his undeniable imagination and talent to work in a more traditional work of long fiction. How do you think the perspectives of each culture are portrayed, and are they given equal treatment.
Sep 08, 2010 join the georgetown book club for its very last meeting at the interim location before we move to book hill park. As a bookshop affiliate and an amazon associate, the rumpus earns a percentage from qualifying purchases. Jul 14, 2015 this book is a kind of unusual one and its different to what normally read so an interesting one to discuss. I picked this book for my inreallife book club in madison to read because id heard a lot about david mitchell and was curious to try one of his books. The consequences will extend beyond jacobs worst imaginings. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Its a strangely gothic, historical actionadventure romance, set on a dutch trading outpost in. With ka yoshida, mitchell translated from the japanese the internationally. Some of the descriptive writing is so breathtakingly, heart achingly adept. Some of the descriptive writing is so breathtakingly, heart achingly adept it cuts like a scalpel through to your heart. The novel, which is set in eighteenthcentury japan, was long listed for the 2010 man booker prize for fiction. How did our book club discussion of the thousand autumns.