The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas -
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize - Named One of the Top Ten
Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The
Oprah Magazine - A New York Times Notable Book - An
American Library Association Notable Book - Winner of the World
Fantasy Award
"With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match
the legacy of Cloud Atlas."--Los Angeles Times
Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend,
fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old
life. 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. 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.
For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics--and
their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking
disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. 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.
A 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. 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.
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."
An 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. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone
Clocks, crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling
pleasure--it is fiction at its most spellbinding.
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Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including**
NPR - San Francisco Chronicle *- * The Atlantic - The
Guardian - Slate - BuzzFeed
"One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long
time."--Meg Wolitzer, NPR
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"[Mitchell] 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**
"Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich
selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic
speculation."--The Washington Post
"[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a
novel."--O: The Oprah Magazine
"Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his
narrators with vivid expertise."--San Francisco Chronicle
