David Mitchell

Shortlisted for the Booker and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes

«Las plantas se murieron, la leche se cuajó y mis hijos se volvieron salvajes mientras yo sucumbía a la magia aterradora de La casa del callejón. Es una historia delirantemente imaginativa, espeluzna

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.

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.

¿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

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA delight! Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2Very entertaining.Irish Times **From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in. As facts are downgraded to opinions, as customers are preyed upon by algorithm-wielding websites, voters by targeted lies, cinema-goers by superheroes and children by measles, it is probably socially irresponsible even to try to cheer up. But if youre determined to give it a go, you might enjoy this eclectic collection (or eclection) of David Mitchells attempts to make light of all that darkness. Scampi, politics, the Olympics, terrorism, condiments, proportional representation and rude street names are all touched upon by Mitchells unremitting laser of chit-chat. Read this book and slightly change your life!

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.

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 ...

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.

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...

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

Es un enero frío y lluvioso en el pueblo inglés de Black Swan Green, y Jason Taylor, un niño de trece años, tartamudo encubierto y poeta a regañadientes, se espera un año aburrídisimo en el pueblo más muerto del planeta. No cuenta con que tendra que verselas con los matones del colegio, los conflictos latentes en su familia, la guerra de las Malvinas, una exotica refugiada belga, una invasion de gitanos oprimidos y los caprichos de esas misteriosas criaturas conocidas como las niñas. La ultima novela de David Mitchell es una cronica minuciosa de trece meses en el agujero negro que separa la niñez de la adolescencia, con el telon de fondo de una Inglaterra rural a punto de desaparecer y todavia ensombrecida por la Guerra Fria. Ironica, amarga, comica y llena de vida, El bosque del cisne negro es la obra mas aguda y cautivadora de Mitchell hasta la fecha.

Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control -- of riches and minds, and over death itself.

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.

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the "high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island" that is the Japanese Empire´s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful 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. In 2007, Time magazine named David Mitchell one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply "a genius."

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...

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...