David Mitchell
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Dům za zdí
Audiokniha Dům za zdí, kterou napsal David Mitchell. Ta černočerná vrátka do zahrady anglického baráku zničeného náletem tu vlastně nejsou. Den otevřených dvířek do domu v uličce Slade Alley se totiž pořádá jen jedenkrát za devět let, vždy v sobotu večer před halloweenskou verzí Dušiček, protože o nic jiného jeho správcům ani nejde. Po šťavnatě vystresované lidské duši by se tihle emoční upíři utloukli, jelikož jedině díky ní si v další periodě zlodušství udrží své superschopnosti – a zatímco ji z kořisti vysávají, mlaskají u toho jako Drákula, Vetřelec a Demogorgon dohromady.
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Felhőatlasz
„David Mitchell egy hullámvasútra csábítja olvasóit, akik először vonakodva szállnak fel, de miután belevágtak a kalandba, nem akarják, hogy véget érjen az út. Velem legalábbis ez történt.” – A. S. Byatt, Guardian. David Mitchell bravúros felépítésű, virtuóz nyelvezetű művében az összefonódó életek minden időbeli és térbeli határt átlépve hatnak egymásra. A lelkek korokon és kontinenseken át vándorolnak, akár az égbolton átvonuló felhők. A könyvben kibontakozó történetek, a zaklatott életű ifjú zeneszerző Felhőatlasz szextettjének hangszereihez hasonlóan, hat különböző hangon szólalnak meg, mindegyik „a maga sajátos kifejezésmódján, hangsorán, hangszínén”. Ahogy a zeneműben a hangszerek, a könyv első részében „a szólók sorra megszakítják egymást”, majd a másodikban „sorra befejezik szólamukat”. Mindegyik történet önmagán túlmutatva keresi a választ az élet nagy kérdéseire. Ki irányítja a sorsunkat: mi magunk vagy valamilyen külső erő? Képesek vagyunk-e tanulni a múltban, az előző életek során elkövetett hibákból? Az összefonódó sorsok szólamait a keresztutalásokkal és visszatérő motívumokkal átszőtt Felhőatlasz tökéletes harmóniaként szólaltatja meg az olvasóban.
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Utopia Avenue
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.
This is the story of Utopia Avenue'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.
Above all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.
Utopia Avenue
A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday Times
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.
Above all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.
David Mitchell's seven novels include Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and lives in Ireland.
Csontórák
Miután csúnyán összeveszik az anyjával, a tizenöt éves Holly Sykes dacosan otthagyja az otthonát. Nem szökni akar, csupán bebizonyítani, hogy ő már nem gyerek, ám a távolléte alatt súlyos tragédia éri a családját, ami hatással lesz Holly egész életére, a szeretteire...
...és azokra, akiket még nem is ismer. Egy cambridge-i egyetemista, aki vagyonért semmitől nem riad vissza; egy nyughatatlan újságíró, aki a család és a haditudósítás között vacillál; egy megkeseredett író, aki egyre távolabb sodródik a sikertől - az ő életük prizmáján keresztül rajzolódik ki Holly sorsa. Ahogy telik az idő és elketyeg az élet, fény derül egy misztikus csoport létezésére, és egy egész élet látomásai és véletlenei értelmet nyernek egy szürreális, láthatatlan háborúban, amely a világunk peremén zajlik.
David Mitchell, a Felhőatlasz szerzője ismét egy korokon és kontinenseken átívelő, epikus történetet alkotott, amely egyszerre sorsregény, metafizikai thriller és meditáció halandóságról és túlélésről.
Slade House
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 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 comes to 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 . . .
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight
A follow-up to its bestselling predecessor, The Reason I Jump opens an extraordinary, rare window into the mind and world of an autistic, non-verbal person--now coping with a young man's life.
Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump as a 13-year-old boy with severe autism, giving us all insight into a world never before open to us. Now he shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year-old. Based on his hugely succesful blogs in Japan, he gives us, in short powerful chapters, his moving, beautiful insights into life, identity, education, his family, our society, and personal growth. He allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Introduced by award-winning author David Mitchell (co-translator with his wife KA Yoshida), this book is part memoir, part critique of a world that sees disabilities ahead of the individual, part self-portrait-in-progress of a young man who happens to have autism and wants to help us understand his world better.
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight
Naoki Higashida met international success with THE REASON I JUMP, a revelatory account of life as a thirteen-year-old with non-verbal autism. Now he offers an equally illuminating insight into autism from his perspective as a young adult. In concise, engaging pieces, he shares his thoughts and feelings on a broad menu of topics ranging from school experiences to family relationships, the exhilaration of travel to the difficulties of speech. Aware of how mystifying his behaviour can appear to others, Higashida describes the effect on him of such commonplace things as a sudden change of plan, or the mental steps he has to take simply to register that it's raining. Throughout, his aim is to foster a better understanding of autism and to encourage those with disabilities to be seen as people, not as problems.With an introduction by David Mitchell, Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight includes a dreamlike short story Higashida wrote for this edition. Both moving and of practical use, the book opens a window into the mind of an inspiring young man who meets the challenges of autism with tenacity and good humour. However often he falls down, he always gets back up.
Lacná kniha Slade House (-25%)
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...
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Bone Clocks
Run 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 ...
The Bone Clocks
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.
Atlas mraků CD
Bestseller Atlas mraků ověnčený British Book Award a nominovaný na cenu Arthura C. Clarka, Nebula a Man Bookerovu cenu byl filmové adaptaci z roku 2012 převeden rovněž do zvukové podoby. Poslechněte si šestici příběhů rozkročených od 19. století až do daleké budoucnosti, které vypovídají o nezdolném hledačství a touze po smyslu i svobodě v každém z nás.
účinkují: Kryštof Rímský (Adam Ewing), Jan Zadražil (Robert Frobisher), Kristýna Frejová (Luisa Rey), Jan Vlasák (Timothy Cavendish), Jana Stryková (Sonmi 451), Jan Herget (archivář), Martin Stránský (Zachry)
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Atlas Mraků
Audiokniha Atlas Mraků, kterou napsal David Mitchell. Román vypráví šest žánrově odlišných příběhů, které se odehrávají v různých časech a na různých místech od začátku 19. století až po postapokalytickou budoucnost.
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13,56 €
Cloud Atlas
A SPECIAL SIGNED ANNIVERSARY EDITION CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CLOUD ATLAS
With an introduction by Gabrielle Zevin (author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow) and a new afterword by David Mitchell
With unmissable sprayed edges and endpapers, beautiful turquoise foil, a bespoke case design, ribbon marker, peelable sticker and signed by the author, this stunning 20th anniversary hardback of Cloud Atlas is the perfect gift for fans
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850.
A disinherited composer conning his way into the home of a dying genius in interwar Belgium.
A high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California.
A vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors.
The testament of 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 along the corridor of history - echoes that change destinies in ways great and small.
In a globe-encircling narrative reaching from the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.
*Please note that p. 40 is intentionally blank*
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the CoversBook Club pick
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38,95 €
Unruly
Discover who we are and how we got here by pre-ordering comedian and student of history David Mitchell's UNRULY: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the founding fathers and mothers of England, and subsequently Britain.
Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again.
In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how early England's monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.
Taking us right back to King Arthur (spoiler: he didn't exist), David tells the founding story of post-Roman England right up to the reign of Elizabeth I (spoiler: she dies). It's a tale of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, middle-management insurrection, uncivil wars, and at least one total Cnut, as the English evolved from having their crops nicked by the thug with the largest armed gang to bowing and paying taxes to a divinely anointed King.
How this happened, who it happened to and why the hell it matters in twenty-first-century Britain are all questions David answers with brilliance, wit and the full erudition of a man who once studied history - and is damned if he'll let it off the hook for the mess it's made of everything.
A serious book by a very funny man, UNRULY is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame.
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21,95 €
Felhőatlasz
David Mitchell bravúros felépítésű, virtuóz nyelvezetű művében az összefonódó életek minden időbeli és térbeli határt átlépve hatnak egymásra. A lelkek korokon és kontinenseken át vándorolnak, akár az égbolton átvonuló felhők.
A könyvben kibontakozó történetek, a zaklatott életű ifjú zeneszerző Felhőatlasz szextettjének hangszereihez hasonlóan, hat különböző hangon szólalnak meg, mindegyik "a maga sajátos kifejezésmódján, hangsorán, hangszínén". Ahogy a zeneműben a hangszerek, a könyv első részében "a szólók sorra megszakítják egymást", majd a másodikban "sorra befejezik szólamukat". Mindegyik történet önmagán túlmutatva keresi a választ az élet nagy kérdéseire. Ki irányítja a sorsunkat: mi magunk vagy valamilyen külső erő? Képesek vagyunk-e tanulni a múltban, az előző életek során elkövetett hibákból?
Az összefonódó sorsok szólamait a keresztutalásokkal és visszatérő motívumokkal átszőtt Felhőatlasz tökéletes harmóniaként szólaltatja meg az olvasóban.
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16,13 €
