She becomes a pawn in a spiritual war between the mysterious "Radio People" and the benevolent Horologists, led by the body-shifting immortal Marinus. Is The Bone Clocks the most ambitious novel ever written, or just the most Mitchell-esque? We begin in the punk years with a teenage Talking Heads obsessed runaway from Gravesend, England, named Holly Sykes. channels his narrators with vivid expertise.” - San Francisco Chronicle “ time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.” - O: The Oprah Magazine offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.” - The Washington Post “ writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.” - The New York Times Book Review “One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I’ve read in a long time.” -Meg Wolitzer, NPR Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure-it is fiction at its most spellbinding. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”Īn elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves-even the ones who are not yet born.Ī Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list-all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.įor Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics-and their enemies. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. “With The Bone Clocks, Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas.”- Los Angeles Timesįollowing a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life.
An American Library Association Notable Book.Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine.It does the same to Thousand Autumns by reusing the character of Dr Marinus, but I can forgive that a little more because there were some fantastical elements in that book as well.The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas The Bone Clocks revealing that BSG takes place not in our Worcestershire but the Worcestershire of a world with fantasy elements takes something away from it. I wasn't blown away by Black Swan Green but there was something sweet about it. It also sort of ruined something about Black Swan Green, the previous book to feature Hugo Lamb. The worldbuilding of the behind-the-scenes-of-reality struggle was feeble and at times cringeworthy. It failed largely because the central narrative - the struggle between two immortal factions - kept getting sidelined in favour of less interesting side stories that seemed to have been given more attention by the author. I felt it fell a bit short of what it seemed to be aiming for: literary speculative fiction in the vein of Iain Banks's Transition and The Business, both of which I felt it resembled. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the previous novel I read by him, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which I thought was excellent.
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