David Mitchell’s <em>The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet</em>

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 1, 2010

David Mitchell talks about his latest book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, a historical novel set in Japan at the turn of the 19th century, when the country was isolated from the West with the exception of a small Dutch outpost called Dejima, in Nagasaki Harbor.

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