Book Review - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - By David Mitchell - NYTimes.com

Book Review - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - By David Mitchell - NYTimes.com: "And so for a time, the novel becomes an urgent adventure story. It turns out that to forgive debts incurred by her father, who has recently died, Miss Aibagawa has been bequeathed to a pseudo-­respectable demigod who runs a kind of bizarre nunnery called the Mount Shiranui Shrine, where the women are drugged and impregnated and kept for decades against their will. Miss Aibagawa is told it will be 20 years before she is able to see the World Below again. De Zoet learns of her captivity and is determined to rescue her, but complications, too many to mention, arise."