Now comes “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,” which retains those narrative tendencies while abandoning the structural complexities often (and often wrongly) called postmodern. That book, like much of Mitchell’s fiction, plays with narrative structure while never abandoning a traditional love of storytelling and an unmistakable affection for historical, and adventuresome, settings. His best-known book, “Cloud Atlas,” is one of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is - and should be - read by any student of contemporary literature. Mitchell is almost universally acknowledged as the real deal.
If any readers have doubted that David Mitchell is phenomenally talented and capable of vaulting wonders on the page, they have been heretofore silent.
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