Issue #0

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Plot

"Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds - or hearts." -- Back cover.