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As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams, memories and reality collide then diverge as Eiji is caught up in a feverish succession of encounters by turn bizarre, hilarious and shockingly dangerous. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp...

One of "TIME" magazine's most influential novelists in the world presents a bold and epic novel about a rarely visited point in history--18th-century Japan--in a work as exquisitely rendered as it is irresistibly readable.

From award-winning writer Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. "Black Swan Green" tracks a single year in what is, for 13-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982.

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. Add to this - a Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing. All of them have tales to tell, and all must play their part as they are caught up in the inescapable forces of cause and effect.

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.

Autorovo „venkovské retro“ z časů prvních lásek, vinylů a videoher v maringotkách, kdy se všechno zdálo daleko větší, je především subtilním a působivým portrétem dospívání, na jehož prožitku nic nezmění ani válka o Falklandy. Na počátku románu, který se odehrává v době od ledna 1982 do ledna 1983, hrdina zničí nenahraditelné hodinky po dědečkovi, a spouští tím řetězec událostí, v němž autor opět předvede mistrné spředení zápletky. Ze soukromých bitev oněch třinácti měsíců, které jsou pro jeho rodinu tak významné, vychází Jason zralejší i zrazenější. Určitě však s kouzelnými pocity „umělce v jinošském věku“, o jakých psali už James Joyce nebo Alain Fournier, poněvadž David Mitchell ani v „klasičtější“ poloze nezůstal nic dlužen invenci nejtalentovanějšího anglického prozaika své generace.

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 ...

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...

Okinawa, Tokio, Hong Kong, Mongolsko, Petrohrad, Londýn a nakonec New York. Na této cestě můžeme s členem japonského kultu Óm Šinrikjó spoluprožívat jeho pocity po plynovém útoku v tokijském metru, potkáme se s podloudným mongolským obchodníkem a petrohradským zlodějem, brutálně zneužívanou mladou Číňankou či zklamaným irským vědcem. Jednotlivé příběhy na sebe často až s téměř nepostřehnutelnou jemností navazují a vzájemně se překrývají a nabízejí tak čtenářský zážitek, jaký David Mitchell předvedl ve svém vrcholném díle – Atlasu mraků.

Cloud Atlas (Cartographie Des Nuages)

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...

The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 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 ...

Když nastane přesně ta správná chvíle, objevíte v úzké uličce lemované cihlovou zdí, jen kousek od obyčejné anglické hospody, vchod do neobyčejného domu. Cizí člověk vás tam osloví jménem a pozve vás dovnitř. Zpočátku se vám nebude chtít odejít. Později zjistíte, že odejít nemůžete. Každých devět let tam jeho obyvatelé – podivní sourozenci – pozvou někoho, kdo je odlišný nebo osamělý: přechytralého puberťáka, nedávno rozvedeného policistu, plachou univerzitní studentku. Co se však v domě opravdu děje? Pro ty, kdo to zjistí, je už příliš pozdě…

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.

Patnáctiletá Holly po zuřivé hádce s matkou zabouchne dveře za svým starým životem. Když nyní prochází anglickým venkovem, podivná setkání a souhry náhod přetvářejí její realitu tak, až se začne podobat oživlé noční můře. Neboť Holly upoutala pozornost skupinky nebezpečných mystiků – a jejich nepřátel. A právě osud Holly Sykesové je tmelem spojujícím příběhy dalších protagonistů Hodin z kostí – studenta z Cambridge, který usiluje o bohatství a vliv, rozpačitého otce, jenž si připadá naživu, pouze když podává zpravodajství z okupovaného Iráku, spisovatele středního věku, jenž truchlí nad svým vyhnanstvím ze žebříčku bestsellerů –, kteří všichni sehrají roli v nadpřirozené neviditelné válce na okrajích našeho světa. Ze středověkých švýcarských Alp přes australskou buš devatenáctého století a hotel v Šanghaji až do výstavného domu na Manhattanu v blízké budoucnosti a na postapokalyptický irský venkov se jejich příběhy rozvíjejí a spojují v okamžicích jak každodenních, tak téměř zázračných. Hodiny z kostí tvoří kaleidoskop plný výrazných postav a možných světů, který přímo prosí o to, abychom ho rozebrali a opět poskládali dohromady.

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 . . .