The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom TykwerThe year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire"s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and cos... Full description