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David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the…

David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the…

David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: In 1799, Jacob de Zoet disembarks on the tiny island of Dejima, the Dutch East India Company's remotest trading post in a Japan otherwise closed to the outside world. A junior clerk, his task is to uncover evidence of the previous Chief Resident's corruption. Cold-shouldered by his compatriots, Jacob earns the trust of a local interpreter and, more dangerously, becomes intrigued by a rare woman —…

David Mitchell: Black Swan Green

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor — covert stammerer and reluctant poet — anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigre, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious…

David Mitchell: Black Swan Green

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: David Mitchell comes home — to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village (Black Swan Green) in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the…