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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.

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...

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

¿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

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.

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.Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014Run 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 . . .In 1984, teenager Holly Sykes runs away from home - a Gravesend pub. Sixty years later, she is to be found in the far west of Ireland, raising a granddaughter as the world''s climate collapses.In between, Holly is encountered as a barmaid in a Swiss resort by an undergraduate sociopath in 1991; has a child with a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq War in 2003; and, widowed, becomes the confidante of a self-obsessed author of fading powers and reputation during the present decade. Yet these changing personae are only part of the story, as Holly''s life is repeatedly intersected by a slow-motion war between a cult of predatory soul-decanters and a band of vigilantes led by one Doctor Marinus. Holly begins as an unwitting pawn in this war - but may prove to be its decisive weapon.The arc of a life, a social seismograph, a fantasy of shadows and an inquiry into aging, mortality and survival, THE BONE CLOCKS could only have been written by David Mitchell.

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 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 lives and times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.This is the story of the band's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact; and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close.

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.

David Mitchell comes home - to England, 1982, and the cusp of adolescence. Jason Taylor is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village ("Black Swan Green") in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in the most tedious nation (England) on earth. And he stammers. 13 chapters, each as self-contained as a short story, follow 13 months in his life as he negotiates the pitfalls of school and home and contends with bullies, girls and family politics. In the distance, the Falklands conflict breaks out; close at hand, the village mobilises against a gypsy camp. And through Jason's eyes, we see what he doesn't know he knows - and watch unfold what will make him wish his life had been as uneventful as he had believed. Vividly capturing the mood of the times - high unemployment, Cold War politics and the sunset of agrarian England - this is at once a portrait of an era and of an age: the black hole between childhood and teenagerdom.

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.

Un estuche esoecualmente diseñado para los aficionados al milenario pasatiempo de la papiroflexia oriental.

L'histoire d'un groupe de rock dans les années 1960 á Londres.

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.

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 Reagans 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 others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.