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David Mitchell talks about his novel "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"
Prize-winning author David Mitchell reads extracts from his latest novel βThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.β He also discusses with Andrew Graham-Dixon how the course of the novel was determined by avoiding the pitfalls of historical fiction. In this clip he tells Andrew how he wrote the book several times in order to get his characters right.
