2014, ISBN: 9780743243315

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Random House, 2014. Hardcover. This book is blowing everyone's minds. If you've read his previous novels, you'll be amazed to know that in this one, he brings together strands of the oth… Mehr…

Random House, 2014. Hardcover. This book is blowing everyone's minds. If you've read his previous novels, you'll be amazed to know that in this one, he brings together strands of the others in a way that might seem impossible if anybody else was doing it. And if you want to read the others, we can get them! A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The New York Times bestseller by the author of Cloud Atlas - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize - Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and O: The Oprah Magazine - A New York Times Notable Book - An American Library Association Notable Book - Winner of the World Fantasy Award Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including NPR - San Francisco Chronicle - The Atlantic - The Guardian - Slate - BuzzFeed "With The Bone Clocks, [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of Cloud Atlas."--Los Angeles Times Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and 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." An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a 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 and sheer storytelling pleasure--it is fiction at its most spellbinding. Praise for The Bone Clocks "One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long time."--Meg Wolitzer, NPR "[Mitchell] writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience."--The New York Times Book Review "Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation."--The Washington Post "[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his narrators with vivid expertise."--San Francisco Chronicle "Mitchell is one of the most electric writers alive."--The Boston Globe, Random House, 2014, 0, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2004. First Scribner trade paperback edition [stated]. Eighth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. [14], 415, [3] pages. Some cover wear and creasing noted. Soiling on bottom edge. Includes 21 chapters, as well as acknowledgments. After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naive and disillusioned Chanu? As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet, to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos. Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. She has also published three other novels. The true pleasure of this wonderful novel comes from its timeless sense of wonder and affection for the haplessness of human nature. This book was the winner of the 2003 Discover Award for Fiction, and was also a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice of 2003. Derived from a Kirkus review: Everyday life requires courage. That simple truth is the foundation of this fine debut about a young Bangladeshi woman in London, struggling to make sense of home, family, Islam, and even adultery. You're only 18 when an arranged marriage whisks you off to a faraway land whose language you can't understand. Your husband is middle-aged and ugly as sin. What for Westerners would be a fate worse than death is for Ali's heroine Nazneen fate, period. A devout Moslem, she has inherited her mother's stoic acceptance of God's will, even heeding her husband Chanu's advice not to leave their apartment in the grim projects on her own; people would talk. Chanu is happy to have acquired "an unspoilt girl. From the village." He's a gentle but insufferably verbose man, a low-level bureaucrat. He's also a born loser, and Ali's masterly portrayal mixes mordant humor with a full measure of pathos. The excitement here comes in watching Nazneen's new identity flower on this stony soil. Motherhood is the first agent of change. Her firstborn dies in infancy, but her daughters Shahana and Bibi thrive. A power shift occurs when Shahana rebels against her father, an ineffectual martinet; Nazneen the peacemaker holds the family together. When Chanu falls into the clutches of the moneylender Mrs. Islam (a sinister figure straight out of Dickens), Nazneen becomes a breadwinner, doing piecework at home and thus meeting the middleman Kazim, who is also an activist fighting racism. They become lovers; and again Nazneen sees herself as submitting to fate. But when Chanu, increasingly beleaguered, announces their imminent return to Bangladesh, Nazneen asserts herself. On one day of wrenching suspense, she deals forcefully with Mrs. Islam, Kazim, and Chanu, and emerges as a strong, decisive, modern woman. The transformation is thrilling. Newcomer Ali was born in Bangladesh and raised in England, where Brick Lane has been acclaimed, and rightly so: she is one of those dangerous writers who sees everything., Scribner, 2004, 2.5<

2007, ISBN: 9780743243315

New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2004. First Scribner trade paperback edition [stated]. Eighth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. [14], 415, [3] pages. Some cover wear and creasing not… Mehr…

New York, N.Y.: Scribner, 2004. First Scribner trade paperback edition [stated]. Eighth printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. [14], 415, [3] pages. Some cover wear and creasing noted. Soiling on bottom edge. Includes 21 chapters, as well as acknowledgments. After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naive and disillusioned Chanu? As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet, to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos. Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. She has also published three other novels. The true pleasure of this wonderful novel comes from its timeless sense of wonder and affection for the haplessness of human nature. This book was the winner of the 2003 Discover Award for Fiction, and was also a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice of 2003. Derived from a Kirkus review: Everyday life requires courage. That simple truth is the foundation of this fine debut about a young Bangladeshi woman in London, struggling to make sense of home, family, Islam, and even adultery. You're only 18 when an arranged marriage whisks you off to a faraway land whose language you can't understand. Your husband is middle-aged and ugly as sin. What for Westerners would be a fate worse than death is for Ali's heroine Nazneen fate, period. A devout Moslem, she has inherited her mother's stoic acceptance of God's will, even heeding her husband Chanu's advice not to leave their apartment in the grim projects on her own; people would talk. Chanu is happy to have acquired "an unspoilt girl. From the village." He's a gentle but insufferably verbose man, a low-level bureaucrat. He's also a born loser, and Ali's masterly portrayal mixes mordant humor with a full measure of pathos. The excitement here comes in watching Nazneen's new identity flower on this stony soil. Motherhood is the first agent of change. Her firstborn dies in infancy, but her daughters Shahana and Bibi thrive. A power shift occurs when Shahana rebels against her father, an ineffectual martinet; Nazneen the peacemaker holds the family together. When Chanu falls into the clutches of the moneylender Mrs. Islam (a sinister figure straight out of Dickens), Nazneen becomes a breadwinner, doing piecework at home and thus meeting the middleman Kazim, who is also an activist fighting racism. They become lovers; and again Nazneen sees herself as submitting to fate. But when Chanu, increasingly beleaguered, announces their imminent return to Bangladesh, Nazneen asserts herself. On one day of wrenching suspense, she deals forcefully with Mrs. Islam, Kazim, and Chanu, and emerges as a strong, decisive, modern woman. The transformation is thrilling. Newcomer Ali was born in Bangladesh and raised in England, where Brick Lane has been acclaimed, and rightly so: she is one of those dangerous writers who sees everything., Scribner, 2004, 2.5<