ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY INDEPENDENT The Sunday Times number one bestseller Longlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers PrizesThrillingly suspenseful Sunday TimesStunning Independent on SundayA classic Washington PostIn your hands is a place like no other a tiny, manmade island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the eighteenth century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart.Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control of riches and minds, and over death itself.Praise for David MitchellA thrilling and gifted writerFinancial TimesDizzyingly, dazzlingly goodDaily MailMitchell is, clearly, a geniusNew York Times Book ReviewAn author of extraordinary ambition and skillIndependent on SundayA superb storytellerNew Yorker

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