![]() Mitchell is probably still best known for Cloud Atlas, his complex 2004 masterpiece. The 41-year-old British novelist has made a career of defying expectations, while still retaining commercial popularity and ecstatic critical praise. That's the assumption, anyway - but if anyone can prove it wrong, it's David Mitchell. Nothing against the Netherlands, the shipping industry, or the Edo shogunate, but such stories don't present obvious merchandising opportunities or lend themselves to CGI-enhanced film adaptations. Not in: novels about sober, upstanding Dutch trading clerks on assignment in Tokugawa-era Japan. ![]() In: vampires werewolves vampires fighting with werewolves vampires fighting with werewolves inserted, for some reason, in the middle of a Jane Austen novel. You don't have to be a publishing expert to guess which trends are driving the book industry this year. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel ![]()
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