The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
4/5
A personal anti-adventure, gripping and poignant and pedestrian.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
5/5
Stonking. It tells the tale of a Dutch clerk (de Zoet) at a trading post with the xenophobic Japan of 1799. It has the swashbuckling panache and anal research of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle with just a dash of 'Big Trouble in Little China'. I hoped it was going to end with a 'to be continued...' but alas, Mitchell managed to wrap it up. Loved it.
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