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¿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 inesperada a fin de dibujar un mundo, profetico y extraño a la vez, en el que la historia se puede reescribir. Los seis protagonistas de la novela, ajenos a la trascendencia de sus acciones, tienen un papel mucho mas relevante en la posteridad de lo que pueden imaginar, en escenarios tan disimiles como un viaje por la Polinesia a bordo de un galeon en el siglo xix, la California de los años sesenta, o una isla en un futuro postapocaliptico. Todos ellos comparten un destino comun, el afan de poder que se sucede una civilizacion tras otra, y la busqueda del amor como salvacion.

Il viaggio di Holly Sykes comincia a Gravesend nel 1984, in pieno thatcherismo, quando lei ha quindici anni, strane visioni notturne, una madre insopportabile e un ragazzo che pochissimi definirebbero bravo. E finisce, piu o meno, sessant'anni dopo, quando Holly si trova sulla costa atlantica dell'Irlanda, insieme alla nipotina, sull'orlo della catastrofe climatica, ancora una volta messa di fronte a un decisione epocale contro forze ultraterrene. Nel frattempo, la vita di Holly si dipana tra i luoghi piu diversi e i personaggi piu inaspettati, attraversando un conflitto invisibile nel quale potrebbe essere l'arma decisiva. Nell'arco di sei decenni e fino all'ultimo respiro Holly dovra trovare la forza di sopravvivere e salvare chi ama, muovendosi sempre in quel precario, misterioso, fuggevole e struggente equilibrio tra volonta e caos, tra devozione e disperazione, tra amore e distruzione, che e la vita umana.

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire's single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob's original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken—the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.

Jacob de Zoet se encuentra en Deshima, el único enclave comercial japonés que durante la era Edo permite la presencia extranjera. Este joven holandés espera poder reunir en cinco años el dinero suficiente para casarse con la bella Anne. Sin embargo, su estancia se complica cuando conoce a Orito, una hermosa e inteligente comadrona que tras la muerte de su padre, el prestigioso doctor Aibagawa, desaparece misteriosamente. En medio de las intrigas de comerciantes, timadores y colegas cuyo proceder parece haberse contagiado del oscuro clima de la isla, Jacob intentara descifrar el contenido de un misterioso pergamino que parece contener la clave para comprender la desaparicion de Orito, su amor prohibido, y los secretos que rodean a la enigmatica Hermandad del monte Shiranui. Se desarrolla cuidadosamente, como las flores japonesas que brotan cuando se ponen sobre el agua. MICHIKO KAKUTANI

By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant. The novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: 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 Reagan's 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 other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changes in ways great and small.

Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds -- or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell's panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin -- and all the while, unbeknownst to him and his feuding compatriots, the axis of global power is turning...

Jason Taylor, un adolescente casi trece años, narra su vida en un pueblo inglés a principios de los 80. Es la época de la guerra de las Malvinas y del gobierno de Margaret Thatcher pero también del Spectrum, los Talking Heads y los Duran Duran, los matones de la escuela, las niñas inalcanzables, los primeros cigarrillos... Sensible e imaginativo, Jason es tartamudo y se las apaña con miles de trucos para ocultar su tartamudeo que lo estrangula cuando quiere hablar y siempre lo deja colgado en el peor momento. Evitar el ridiculo resulta agotador.

Dejima, comptoir de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales, ou la promesse d'une fortune facile. Jeune clerc, Jacob de Zoet débarque sur l'île en 1799, bercé par l'espoir d'un mariage à son retour. Là, il est comme envoûté par Mlle Aibagawa, douce sage-femme au visage étrangement brûlé. Or la demoiselle est enlevée sous ses yeux par le diabolique Enomoto et conduite sur le mont Shiranui...

En El atlas de las nubes, de David Mitchell, autor de obras como El bosque del cisne negro o Mil otoños, nos haremos la siguiente pregunta: ¿Puede el amor, el poder del bien incluso en la adversidad, perdurar mas alla de la vida que conocemos y prolongarse a traves de siglos y lugares? El atlas de las nubes es una novela de narrativa extranjera que da la vuelta al mundo y recorre desde el siglo xix hasta un futuro apocaliptico, a traves 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 medico, el doctor Goose, que comienza a tratarle de una extraña enfermedad causada por un parasito cerebral... Repentinamente, la accion se traslada a 1931 en Belgica, donde Robert Frobisher, un compositor bisexual que ha sido desheredado, se introduce en el hogar de un artista enfermizo, su seductora esposa y su nubil hija... De ahi saltamos a la Costa Oeste en la decada de los setenta, cuando Luisa Rey destapa una red de avaricia y crimen que pone en peligro su vida... Y, del mismo modo, con identica maestria, viajamos a la ignominiosa Inglaterra de nuestros dias, a un superestado coreano del futuro proximo regido por un capitalismo desbocado y, finalmente, a Hawai, a una Edad de Hierro post-apocaliptica que corresponde a los ultimos dias de la historia. Sin embargo, la historia tampoco termina ahi. La narrativa vuelve, como si de un bumeran se tratara, en el tiempo y en el espacio hasta el punto de partida recorriendo, en sentido inverso, la trayectoria trazada. Durante la travesia, 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 traves del tiempo como las nubes por el horizonte. David Mitchell, es un visionario posmoderno que se mueve con maestria por una multiplicidad de estilos y sabe combinar a la perfeccion los ingredientes basicos de la novela de aventuras con una debilidad muy nabokoviana por el puzzle, un ojo clinico para retratar a los personajes y un gusto por la reflexion filosofica y cientifica en la linea de Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami y Philip K. Dick.

The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN S BEST LOVED COMIC WRITERS Pre order now David Mitchell s new book Dishonesty is the Second best Policy There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award winning comedian David Mitchell such as Why is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake Why are people so f ing hung up about swearing Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things and how can they be stopped from stopping them Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times from Ryanair to Richard III Downton Abbey to phone etiquette UKIP to hotdogs made of cats Funny provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious modern world Mitchell is an exceptionally clever eloquent and spot on commentator We should be grateful for him Daily Mail Books of the Year