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Review: Fiction
History, loud and clear
David Mitchell’s masterful new novel is the author working at full volume.
History, loud and clear
David Mitchell’s masterful new novel is the author working at full volume.
Half the size of a football field, its curved shape resembling a fan, the man-made island of Dejima once nestled in Nagasaki Harbour. From the 17th century through to the middle of the 19th, Dejima housed the only Westerners permitted inside cloistered, shogun-era Japan. Fifteen or so Dutchmen resided there at any moment, and they were not even allowed to cross a footbridge into the city. Nor were more than a handful of Japanese translators, medical students and courtesans let onto this “foreign” isle.
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