The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Paperback)

Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful . . . it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity - Sunday Times

An achingly romantic story of forbidden love . . . Mitchell's incredible prose is on stunning display . . . [it] confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive - Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

That rare thing - a novel which actually deserves the accolade "tour de force" - Kamila Shamsie, Books of the Year, Daily Telegraph

Genres merge and interact like the shimmering colours of a kaleidoscope . . . one story contains multiplicities, woven together with golden thread . . . Dive in and lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance - Katy Guest, Independent on Sunday

Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant . . . He can write as thrillingly about large-scale events as he can about the tiny details of the private world . . . turned one way this novel is a thriller with a glittering seam of a love story running through it (or is it the other way round?); turned another, it is a sumptuous historical novel on the collision of cultures caught at a particular crossroads of history - Neel Mukherjee, The Times

Stunning - Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday

As compelling as it is strange, the novel is testament to the originality of Mitchell's vision and his great craftiness as a storyteller - Times Literary Supplement

A heady potion of betrayal, love, superstition, power politics and murder . . . And all this in the most extraordinary prose - Sunday Telegraph

However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags . . . Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work - Independent

Moving, thoughtful and unexpectedly funny - Books of the Year, Observer

Hugely enjoyable . . . It cracks along, holding us in suspense from the beginning - Literary Review

Masterpieces make their own rules, and this book is definitely one of them - Scotsman

David Mitchell is back with a bang . . . superb - Irish Independent

Ambitious and fascinating . . . Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money - Kirkus Reviews

A pitch-perfect masterclass in the art, and magic, of narrative - Books of the Year, Independent

A marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation - Observer

A formidable marvel - New Yorker

Extraordinarily entertaining and well-realised - A. S. Byatt, Observer

For a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and simply unforgettable - Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

Almost every sentence shimmers with precise, opaque and brilliantly realised writing . . . An historical novel on a deliberately grand scale, it never loses its quiet intimacy - Irish Times

The details are fascinating and the prose beautiful . . . simply magnificent - Historical Novels Review

Sharp, hilarious, exhilarating stuff. Utterly enjoyable - Mslexia

An affecting conclusion underscores Mr Mitchell's mastery here not only of virtuosic literary fireworks, but also of the quieter arts of empathy and traditional storytelling - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Dazzles with its density and intensity, its ambition and grandeur - Courier Mail

Mitchell's masterpiece; and also, I am convinced, a masterpiece of our time - Boston Globe

The novelist who's shown us fiction's future has written a classic tale . . . an epic of sacrificial love, clashing civilizations and enemies who won't rest until whole family lines have been snuffed out - Washington Post

A vastly entertaining historical novel, giving the reader a glimpse into a world we know so little of and charting a fascinating period of history - Sydney Morning Herald

A marvellously wrought novel, full of fully formed characters and the kind of detail that allows you to sink deep into its imaginary world. I was sorry when I finished - Herald Sun