Bone clock
19.99 €
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Bone clock
19.99 €
A new translation of the magnificent novel by modern classic author David Mitchell, a two-time Booker Prize finalist and author of such intellectual bestsellers as Dream No. 9, Cloud Atlas (recently adapted for the screen by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers), The Hunger House, and others. In The Bone Clocks, Mitchell continues and develops the themes touched upon in Cloud Atlas and deepened in The Hunger House. "A beautiful story, beautiful language, beautiful everything," wrote Stephen King of The Bone Clocks. "One of the best novels of the year, every bit as profound as Donna Tartt's long-awaited The Goldfinch." "A triumphant, stunning, dizzying journey around the world," echoed the venerable Ursula Le Guin in her review. "The terrifying, dark depths of The Bone Clocks are boldly concealed behind witty tricks and verbal lace woven by the inimitable narrator, David Mitchell." So, meet the protagonist: "Holly Sykes, a simple English girl, is every bit as potent as Holden Caulfield" (Booklist). One hot summer day, she runs away from home: a wayward teenager, a rebel with a broken heart, an unwitting pawn in a secret global conflict. Once hearing the voices of "radio people," she now finds the mystery of one lost weekend echoing through various key moments in her life. And year after year, she puzzles over what her seven-year-old brother Jacko meant when he handed her a cardboard box with an “infernal labyrinth” and told her to memorize it: “When you walk through this labyrinth, Darkness follows you relentlessly”... “The Bone Clocks” is a superb work of a master, which can be read with pleasure both as a literary mystery and as an extraordinary story of the life of an ordinary woman over six turbulent decades” (San Francisco Chronicle).
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series A Great Romance