Great Book
Hi all you lovely ladies,
I’m surviving the warm weather quite nicely. It’s usually cool enough mornings for a walk in the neighborhood.
The great book I’m referring to is “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeVoet”, by David Mitchell. It takes place in Japan around 1799 and revolves around a Dutch trading company doing business on a man-made island on the coast of Nagasaki. A young clerk falls for a Japanese medical student against all Japanese laws and customs. She is then sold by her step mother to a monastery where the nun/inmates are subjected to the monks for the purpose of producing babies for adoption. The book gets into some interesting details about the Japanese era of total isolation from the rest of the world.
Have a great Summer,
Huggs all,
Jerry