Bone clock
19.99 €
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Bone clock
19.99 €
This new translation is a magnificent novel by the modern classicist David Mitchell, two-time Booker Prize finalist, author of such intellectual bestsellers as Dream No. 9, Cloud Atlas (recently adapted by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers), The Hungry House, and others. In "The Bone Clock," Mitchell continues and develops the themes touched on in "Cloud Atlas" and deepened in "The Hungry House." "Beautiful story, beautiful language, everything is perfect," Stephen King wrote of The Bone Clock. - "One of the best novels of the year, in no way inferior to Donna Tartt's long-awaited 'The Shchegle' in literary depth." "A triumphant, stunning, dizzying journey around the world," echoed the venerable Ursula Le Guin in her review. - The frightening dark depths of "The Bone Clock" are boldly hidden behind witty tricks and verbal lace, which weaves inimitable narrator David Mitchell". So, meet the main character, "Holly Sykes, a plain English girl, is as good as Holden Caulfield" (Booklist). She runs away from home one hot summer afternoon: a wayward teenager, a rebel with a broken heart, an unwitting pawn in a secret global conflict. Once she heard the voices of "radio people"-now the mystery of one lost weekend will auction off various key moments in her life. And year after year she puzzles over what seven-year-old brother Jacko meant when he handed her a cardboard card with an "infernal labyrinth" and told her to memorize it by heart: "When you walk this labyrinth, Darkness follows you relentlessly"... The Bone Clock is a superb work of artistry that is a pleasure to read as both a literary mystery and an extraordinary story of an ordinary woman's life over six tumultuous decades" (San Francisco Chronicle).
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Novel