GET LIT (ALL WEEK LONG): Win a copy of David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win. Random House, 496 pp., $26, June 29 If you're looking for serious summer reading (of the non-vampire-related variety), David Mitchell's brand-new historical romance The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet might be right up your alley. Here's resident Shelf Life columnist Justin Bauer's take: David Mitchell has a knack for identifying a beautiful moment. He strews paragraphs of them throughout The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, moments that decant the essence of a dusty colonial square, or a pastoral physic garden, or the panoramic wheeling of a flock of gulls into a page of bracingly clear, high-proof prose. This is half the skill set that made Mitchell's reputation; the rest comes from his audacity with form. In his early novels, he arranged his prose into complex postmodern puzzles. More recently, he's applied a similar playfulness to genre conventions, in Black Swan Green and now in Thousand Autumns' swashbuckling historicism. To win a copy of The Thousand Autumns, answer the following trivia question:

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GET LIT (ALL WEEK LONG): Win a copy of David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

POSTED: Monday, June 21, 2010, 8:00 PM

Welcome to Book Quarterly Trivia Week! From now till June 23, we'll be inundating you with opportunities to win free copies of books from our Summer BQ. For the first time in BQTW's history, we've got copies of every single book we've reviewed, previewed and shouted out (even in Icepack!). So keep an eye out at 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. every day for plenty of chances to win.

Random House, 496 pp., $26, June 29

If you're looking for serious summer reading (of the non-vampire-related variety), David Mitchell's brand-new historical romance The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet might be right up your alley. Here's resident Shelf Life columnist Justin Bauer's take:

David Mitchell has a knack for identifying a beautiful moment. He strews paragraphs of them throughout The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, moments that decant the essence of a dusty colonial square, or a pastoral physic garden, or the panoramic wheeling of a flock of gulls into a page of bracingly clear, high-proof prose. This is half the skill set that made Mitchell's reputation; the rest comes from his audacity with form. In his early novels, he arranged his prose into complex postmodern puzzles. More recently, he's applied a similar playfulness to genre conventions, in Black Swan Green and now in Thousand Autumns' swashbuckling historicism.

To win a copy of The Thousand Autumns, answer the following trivia question:

A film version of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is in development. Who is directing it?

E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win, and be sure to put "Thousand Autumns" in the subject line. Check back tomorrow for giveaways of Extra Lives, The Lonely Polygamist and The Shallows. [UPDATE, 4:45 p.m.]: Jackie M. got this one: The director of the film version of Cloud Atlas is Tom Tykwer.

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