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August 24th, 2010

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Like Proust, David Mitchell examines how the incidents of a person’s life fit together, how the different parts of the world come to form one world. …more

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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student in English literature at Harvard University, and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Boston.

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