The Bone Clocks: Winner of the World Fantasy Award and Longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes - Tapa blanda

Mitchell, David

 
9780340921623: The Bone Clocks: Winner of the World Fantasy Award and Longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes

Sinopsis

''ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY'' INDEPENDENT


Winner of the World Fantasy Award and longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes


''A triumph''
GUARDIAN

''Fantastical''
OBSERVER

''Epic''
EVENING STANDARD

''Mind-spinning''
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

''Dazzling''
NEW YORK TIMES

The internationally bestselling 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


Run 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 . . .

PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL


''A thrilling and gifted writer''
FINANCIAL TIMES

''Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good''
DAILY MAIL

''Mitchell is, clearly, a genius''
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

''An author of extraordinary ambition and skill''
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

''A superb storyteller''
THE NEW YORKER

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Acerca del autor

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks and Slade House. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from the Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism and
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism.

He lives with his wife and their two children in Ireland.
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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.

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