![]() ![]() But his mission is to serve as a ship’s clerk while simultaneously investigating charges of corruption against the Company’s powerful Chief Resident. ![]() Jacob’s purpose is to acquire sufficient wealth and experience to earn the hand of his fiancée Anna. But now the Company is threatened by the envious British Empire, which seeks to appropriate the Far East’s rich commercial opportunities. ![]() In yet another departure from the postmodern Pynchonian intricacy of his earlier fiction, this is the story of a devout young Dutch Calvinist (the eponymous Jacob) sent in 1799 to Japan, where the Dutch East India Company, aka the VOC, had opened trade routes more than two centuries earlier. Another Booker Prize nomination is likely to greet this ambitious and fascinating fifth novel-a full-dress historical, and then some-from the prodigally gifted British author ( Black Swan Green, 2006, etc.). ![]()
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