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Zusatztext Compared with almost everything being written now! it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant Informationen zum Autor David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream , Cloud Atlas , Black Swan Green , The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet , The Bone Clocks and Slade House . He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism . He lives with his wife and their two children in Ireland. Klappentext The electrifying new novel by 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this! or any country' - Boyd Tonkin! Independent. The electrifying new novel by 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent. Zusammenfassung ** Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell. ** The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller, from the author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS . Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, crushing all vestiges of Christianity, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas. The narrow window onto this nation-fortress is a walled, artificial island attached to the mainland port and manned by a handful of traders. Locked as the land-gate may be, however, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds - or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell's panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one young Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a strage adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin - and all the while, unbeknownst to the men confined on Dejima, the axis of global power is turning... ...
