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perfectly illustrates the idea that we’re all the heroes of our own lives as well as single cogs in a much larger and more beautiful mechanism. In his latest novel, The Bone Clocks, Mitchell has spun his most far-flung tale yet.
To open a Mitchell book is to set forth on an adventure. “Mitchell is one of the most electric writers alive. “Sprawling yet disciplined, drunk on life but ever cognizant of its brevity and preciousness, this time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel by the highly regarded author of Cloud Atlas utterly beguiles.” - O: The Oprah Magazine Very few excite the reader about both the visceral world and the visionary one as Mitchell does.” - The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice) Not many novelists could take on plausible Aboriginal speech, imagine a world after climate change has ravaged it and wonder whether whales suffer from unrequited love. In his sixth novel, he’s brought together the time-capsule density of his eyes-wide-open adventure in traditional realism with the death-defying ambitions of Cloud Atlasuntil all borders between pubby England and the machinations of the undead begin to blur. He writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience. No one, clearly, has ever told Mitchell that the novel is dead.
channels his narrators with vivid expertise.” - San Francisco Chronicle “ time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.” - O: The Oprah Magazine offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.” - The Washington Post “ writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.” - The New York Times Book Review “One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I’ve read in a long time.” -Meg Wolitzer, NPR Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure-it is fiction at its most spellbinding. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”Īn elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves-even the ones who are not yet born.Ī Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list-all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.įor Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and their enemies. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. “With The Bone Clocks, Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”- Los Angeles Timesįollowing a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. An American Library Association Notable Book.Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine.The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas