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Ein junger hollandischer Kaufmann kommt 1799 nach Dejima, dem einzigen europaischen Handelsposten im hermetisch abgeriegelten Japan. Auf der von Geschaftemachern und zwielichtigen Gestalten bevolkerten kunstlichen Insel hofft er, sein Gluck zu machen. Durch die Liebe zu einer Japanerin eroffnet sich Jacob de Zoet unversehens eine geheimnisvolle Welt und zeigt ihre Schonheiten. Doch das fremde Land halt auch Schrecken bereit, Verrat, Intrige und Mord ...

The dazzling new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman's life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict.Over six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival . . .In 1984, teenager Holly Sykes runs away from home - a Gravesend pub. Sixty years later, she is to be found in the far west of Ireland, raising a granddaughter as the world's climate collapses.In between, Holly is encountered as a barmaid in a Swiss resort by an undergraduate sociopath in 1991; has a child with a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq War in 2003; and, widowed, becomes the confidante of a self-obsessed author of fading powers and reputation during the present decade. Yet these changing personae are only part of the story, as Holly's life is repeatedly intersected by a slow-motion war between a cult of predatory soul-decanters and a band of vigilantes led by one Doctor Marinus. Holly begins as an unwitting pawn in this war - but may prove to be its decisive weapon.The arc of a life, a social seismograph, a fantasy of shadows and an inquiry into aging, mortality and survival, THE BONE CLOCKS could only have been written by David Mitchell.

David Mitchell ha sido reconocido durante mucho tiempo como una de las mejores - si no la mejor - mentes literarias de su generación; pero también es uno de los mejores creadores de suspense. El libro perfecto para leer en una noche oscura y tormentosa....

¿Puede el amor, el poder del bien incluso en la adversidad, perdurar más allá de la vida que conocemos y prolongarse a través de siglos y lugares? Seis vidas se entrecruzan aquí de forma inesperad

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking ...The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up - a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon. Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this kaleidoscopic novel crackles with the invention and wit that have made David Mitchell one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. Here is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable best.

Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers Prizes

A stand-out triumph' - Sunday TimesThe spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent).Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.

Un notaio di metà Ottocento che riluttantemente si trova a solcare l'Oceano Pacifico; un compositore diseredato che compone sonate e lettere d'amore per il suo amante nel Belgio, negli anni Trenta; un giornalista di successo della California reaganiana; un editore britannico impegnato a sfuggire ai creditori nascondendosi in una casa di riposo; un androide programmato per servire ai tavoli di un bar che racconta la sua storia da una cella del braccio della morte; e, a chiudere il cerchio, un giovane proveniente da un arcipelago del Pacifico che si trova a osservare la repentina scomparsa della scienza e della civiltà, nel giro di una sola notte. Sei parti, sei narratori per il romanzo di questo giovane scrittore britannico, finalista del Booker Prize.

Esta edición está descatalogada por el editor pero puedes comprar esta nueva edición.El atlas de las nubes es una novela que da la vuelta al mundo y recorre desde el siglo xix hasta un futuro apocalíptico, a través de seis historias entrelazadas. El relato se abre en 1850 con el regreso del notario estadounidense Adam Ewing desde las islas Chatham a su California natal. Durante el viaje, Ewing traba amistad con un médico, el doctor Goose, que comienza a tratarle de una extraña enfermedad causada por un parásito cerebral... Repentinamente, la acción se traslada a 1931 en Bélgica, donde Robert Frobisher, un compositor bisexual que ha sido desheredado, se introduce en el hogar de un artista enfermizo, su seductora esposa y su núbil hija... De ahí saltamos a la Costa Oeste en la década de los setenta, cuando Luisa Rey destapa una red de avaricia y crimen que pone en peligro su vida... Y, del mismo modo, con idéntica maestría, viajamos a la ignominiosa Inglaterra de nuestros días, a un superestado coreano del futuro próximo regido por un capitalismo desbocado y, finalmente, a Hawai, a una Edad de Hierro post-apocalíptica que corresponde a los últimos días de la historia. Sin embargo, la historia tampoco termina ahí. La narrativa vuelve, como si de un bumerán se tratara, en el tiempo y en el espacio hasta el punto de partida recorriendo, en sentido inverso, la trayectoria trazada. Durante la travesía, Mitchell va revelando los lazos que unen a personajes tan distintos, el modo en que se entrecruzan sus destinos y la forma en la que sus almas se desplazan a través del tiempo como las nubes por el horizonte. David Mitchell, es un visionario posmoderno que se mueve con maestría por una multiplicidad de estilos y sabe combinar a la perfección los ingredientes básicos de la novela de aventuras con una debilidad muy nabokoviana por el puzzle, un ojo clínico para retratar a los personajes y un gusto por la reflexión filosófica y científica en la línea de Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami y Philip K. Dick.

As they weave through, reference, and illuminate each other, these lengthy stories comprise a startlingly original novel. They tap into different time periods (from the 19th to the 22nd centuries), locations (the Chatham Islands, London, California, a future dystopia in what was once Korea) and genres (noir, sci-fi, diaries, dialect narrative). Divided into two sets of tales, the book first progresses toward a central, futuristic story of tenuous survivors in a new Iron Age, then moves back again through the worlds of the first section, culminating--as it began--in the diary entries of a man in the South Seas in 1850. All together, as they comment on the passing of time and the human desire for some kind of redemption, the narratives tell a powerful, complex, and completely gripping story. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified "dinery server" on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.

In this anthology, the author brings together the impressions of four centuries of foreign travellers in Spain, from the Duke of Wellington to Ernest Hemingway.