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An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and 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—it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable.

Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on 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.”

大卫·米切尔,英国著名作家,欧美文学界公认的新一代小说大师。1969年生于英格兰伍斯特郡,在肯特大学主修英美文学、比较文学。曾在日本广岛担任工程系学生的英文教师八年。

米切尔博采村上春树、奥斯特、卡尔维诺、博尔赫斯诸大师作品所长,自成一派,其作波诡云谲,灵气无穷。处女作《幽灵代笔》（1999）震撼欧美文学界,荣获莱斯文学奖,入围《卫报》处女作奖决选；《九号梦》（2001）入围布克奖和詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖决选,米切尔也因此书被评为英国优秀青年小说家；《云图》（2004）荣膺英国国家图书奖小说奖和理查与茱蒂读书俱乐部年度选书,同时入围布克奖、星云奖、克拉克奖决选,改编同名电影轰动全球；《绿野黑天鹅》（2006）获得美国图书馆协会青少年图书和《学校图书馆报》图书称号,入围科斯塔图书奖和《洛杉矶时报》图书奖；《雅各布·德佐特的千秋》（2010）问鼎英联邦作家奖,入围司各特历史小说奖；《骨钟》（2014）获世界奇幻大奖优秀小说奖；《斯雷德大宅》（2015）入选多家国际媒体年度优秀图书榜单。

米切尔小说原创性十足,为二十一世纪英语小说开启了全新的模式与风貌。2007年,以杰出的文学成就被美国《时代》杂志评为“世界100位较具影响力的人物”之一。