The Bone Clocks: Winner of the World Fantasy Award and Longlisted for the Booker and Folio Prizes
Autor David Mitchellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iun 2015
Ce rămâne din noi atunci când timpul încetează să mai fie o resursă și devine un câmp de luptă? Ne-a atras atenția modul în care The Bone Clocks transformă viața unei femei obișnuite, Holly Sykes, într-o ancoră pentru un conflict metafizic ce se întinde pe parcursul a șase decenii. De la fuga de acasă în vara anului 1984 și până la apusul civilizației pe coasta Irlandei, Mitchell construiește o meditație profundă asupra mortalității, unde fragilitatea umană se ciocnește de ambițiile unor entități care sfidează legile fizicii. Apreciem finețea cu care autorul introduce elementele fantastice — sclipiri de precogniție, vizitatori care apar din neant — în țesătura unei realități istorice și sociale extrem de recognoscibile.
Stilul narativ este unul caleidoscopic, o semnătură a lui David Mitchell, care schimbă perspectivele și tonul cu o agilitate remarcabilă. Cei care au parcurs Cloud Atlas de David Mitchell vor fi pregătiți pentru această expansiune a universului său literar, regăsind aici aceeași structură modulară și interconectivitate ingenioasă, dar cu o miză mult mai directă asupra modului în care acțiunile noastre ecologice și morale ne definesc viitorul. Dacă în Ghostwritten autorul explora hazardul conexiunilor umane, în The Bone Clocks el rafinează aceste teme, oferind un thriller intelectual despre supraviețuirea sufletului într-o lume care se devorează pe sine. Ritmul este variabil, alternând între introspecția melancolică a adolescenței și tensiunea unui război din umbră, totul sub egida unei scriituri care refuză clișeele genului fantasy în favoarea unei explorări filozofice autentice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0340921625
Pagini: 624
Ilustrații: 6
Dimensiuni: 135 x 198 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Sceptre
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o literatură ce sfidează granițele dintre genuri, îmbinând realismul psihologic cu elemente supranaturale subtile. Este o lectură ideală pentru cei care apreciază complexitatea narativă și temele ecologice, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care memoria și sacrificiul personal pot influența cursul istoriei. Câștigarea World Fantasy Award confirmă valoarea acestei opere în peisajul beletristicii contemporane.
Despre autor
David Mitchell este unul dintre cei mai inventivi și apreciați scriitori britanici contemporani, fiind nominalizat de două ori la Booker Prize. Opera sa, care include titluri precum Cloud Atlas și Utopia Avenue, este recunoscută pentru structurile narative complexe și capacitatea de a naviga între epoci și stiluri diferite. Pe lângă romanele sale, Mitchell a contribuit la scenarii de prestigiu, precum serialul Pachinko și filmul Matrix: Resurrections. A primit premiul Sunday Times pentru excelență literară în 2018, recunoaștere a întregii sale cariere. În prezent, locuiește în Irlanda, țară care oferă și cadrul final al romanului The Bone Clocks.
Descriere
Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this is the kaleidoscopic new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS UK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2014LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015One 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.
Recenzii
He is funny, hip and full of life . . . a beautiful explosion of adventurous ideas
If only real life were as elegant and generally encouraging as a Mitchell novel! He writes with scintillating verve and abundance
600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in relentlessly brilliant prose . . . Death is at the heart of this novel. And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master . . . It's a whopper of a story
Fantastical, ambitious, bold and exuberant
An epic read
No one, clearly, has ever told Mitchell that the novel is dead. He writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience
A mind-spinning, genre-splicing time-travelling epic
Mitchell's mesmerizing saga is evidence of the power of story to transport us, and even to stop time entirely
An extraordinary piece of storytelling
A return to the exuberance and genre-hopping of Cloud Atlas, and a proper page-turner
Mitchell is a consummate craftsman . . . For sci-fi fantasists, the imaginary world Mitchell creates might be a thing of wonder, a Dungeons and Dragons for literate grown-ups. For others, I suspect the flesh and blood anguish of a long life lived well against the odds will prove the greater pleasure
Every page fizzes with energy and humour. Wildly imaginative and truly magical, this is a big, chunky feast of a book
Dazzling . . . Mitchell's heavy arsenal of talents is showcased in these pages: his symphonic imagination; his ventriloquist's ability to channel the voices of myriad characters from different time zones and cultures; his intuitive understanding of children and knack for capturing their solemnity and humor; and his ear for language - its rhythms, sounds and inflections
Intellectually rigorous and stunningly imaginative . . . a rich and dense, inventive and witty thriller
With The Bone Clocks, Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas . . . interconnected lives stretch across time; human contact is both frightening and vital. This novel electrifyingly unites Mitchell's fictions into one universe while telling the story of Holly Sykes, an ordinary young woman whose chance encounters give her life meaning
At once a gripping thriller and a far-out fantasy, a brilliant mash-up that pulsates with energy, satire and wit
Combines fantastic inventiveness with depth and heart
A divinely inventive author . . . This new novel offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation, stretching around the world from the Margaret Thatcher era of the 1980s to the Endarkenment of 2043 . . . Some of these narrators are moving and sympathetic; others radiate the metastasizing creepiness of a Patricia Highsmith villain
If I could file a review that consisted only of the word "wow" 900 times over, it still wouldn't quite capture my delirious response to David Mitchell's stunning, funny, sad, prophetic, fantastical, satirical, achingly real and gloriously fictitious new novel
It's massively bold and ambitious, but also thoroughly readable, funny and moving
Our most accomplished inventor of multitudinous worlds, which are filled with complex, vital people . . . The Bone Clocks features a gyre-works inventiveness that's well matched by (bizarrely) cerebral substance . . . his most sinewy, fine and full book to date, a Mobius strip-tripping great novel that will reward bleary-eyed rereading
One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long time . . . an extraordinary fun house of a novel
A ludicrously ambitious, unstoppably clever epic told through a chorus of diverse narrators that is both outrageous in scope and meticulous in execution
Is The Bone Clocks the most ambitious novel ever written, or just the most Mitchell-esque? . . . From gritty realism to far-out fantasy, each section has its own charm and surprises. With its wayward thoughts, chance meetings, and attention to detail, Mitchell's novel is a thing of beauty
Great story, great words, all good
Great fun . . . a tour de force
Mitchell is one of the most electric writers alive. To open a Mitchell book is to set forth on an adventure . . . In his latest novel, The Bone Clocks, Mitchell has spun his most far-flung tale yet . . . Strange and magical
Mind-bendingly ambitious . . . The force of [Mitchell's] storytelling makes The Bone Clocks a joy
Mitchell is a superb storyteller . . . One of the reasons he is such a popular and critically lauded writer is that he combines both the giddy, freewheeling ceaselessness of the pure storyteller with the grounded realism of the humanist. There's something for everyone, traditionalist or postmodernist, realist or fantasist
Magical . . . [it] perfectly illustrates the idea that we're all the heroes of our own lives as well as single cogs in a much larger and more beautiful mechanism
Deeply meaningful . . . The Bone Clocks has everything you might expect to find in a David Mitchell novel: Great characters in settings far-flung over space and time, all tied together by ambitious ideas and gorgeous writing
A sweeping epic . . . that, like Cloud Atlas, spans the ages and tinkers with the hidden gears of human history
Mitchell is writing about a mortal among immortals, and he never abandons the human half of the story: the fell swoop of first love, the labyrinth of silence where unhappy couples live, the clear cut inside a parent when a child goes missing, the chasm between frontline and home front in a nation at war . . . I was undone by the ending
If David Mitchell isn't the most talented novelist of his generation, is there any doubt that he is the most multi-talented? He is, at his best, a superior writer to Jonathan Franzen, a better storyteller than Michael Chabon, more wickedly clever than Jennifer Egan, nearly as fluent as Junot Diaz in multiple dialects, and as gifted as Alice Munro . . . [The Bone Clocks] offers everything you could possibly want from a conjurer at the height of his powers - a ludicrously ambitious, unstoppably clever epic told through a chorus of diverse narrators that is both outrageous in scope and meticulous in execution . . . The Bone Clocks affords its readers the singular gift of reading - the wish to stay put and to be nowhere else but here.
Another exacting, challenging and deeply rewarding novel from logophile and time-travel master Mitchell . . . If Thatcher's 1984 is bleak, then get a load of what awaits us in 2030. Speculative, lyrical and unrelentingly dark - trademark Mitchell, in other words
I was completely blown away . . . Mitchell's first-class imagination delivers a complex and exciting premise that transcends into an incredibly explosive, surprising, intelligent, dark and magical story
The overwhelming impression is of an author at the height of his powers precisely because of a deep and intuitive understanding and curiosity of what it is about to live a life as a human being.
With 600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in relentlessly brilliant prose, The Bone Clocks hits lots of hot buttons, from the horrors of the Iraq war to the Eternal Battle of Good and Evil to the near-future downfall of our civilisation . . . Death is at the heart of this novel. And there lies its depth and darkness, bravely concealed with all the wit and sleight of hand and ventriloquistic verbiage and tale-telling bravura of which Mitchell is a master . . . It's a whopper of a story.
One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long time. Much of the entertainment comes from Mitchell's mastery over what feels like the entire world and all its inhabitants. Time keeps pulsing ahead in The Bone Clocks, and Mitchell pushes his cast of characters into the future, ending the book in a terrifying world. But for all the dystopia, and the mysticism, and the wild and clanging noise, and the flights of invention that have taken place in this extraordinary fun house of a novel, Mitchell's novel-writing rules allow him to retain his great sensitivity toward his main character from start to finish
Wild, funny, terrifying . . . a slipstream masterpiece all its own
Unmissable
David Mitchell was my favourite author at college - I raved about The Bone Clocks to everyone I met. . . Mitchell's writing is just as magical for me now as it was back then.