David Mitchell

David Mitchellin uusin romaani kuvaa 13-vuotiaan Jason Taylorin elämää Englannin maaseudulla 1980-luvun alussa. Jason yrittää epätoivoisesti piilotella änkytystään kaikilta ja erityisesti koulukavereiltaan. Jasonin tarinaan on helppo samaistua, hänen näkemyksiinsä vanhemmista, opettajista, kiusaajista ja jännittävän oudoista tytöistä. Mieheksi kasvavasta mietteliäästä ja salaa runoja kirjoittavasta Jasonista tekee erittäin eläväisen romaanihenkilön hänen tapansa ajatella asiat halki lähestulkoon brutaalin rehellisesti. Mitchellin kyvykkyys herättää lukijassa nostalgiaa ilmenee myös 1980-uvun alun tarkoissa yksityiskohdissa arkielämästä. Mitchellmäiseen tapaan kirjailija tuo tarinaan mukaan myös henkilön Pilvikartastosta. Romaani on ajaton kasvutarina ja keskiluokkaisen perhedraaman voisi helposti siirtää 2000-luvulle kulisseja muuttamalla.

?Mitchell kartographiert Seelen und schreibt Weltliteratur? (NZZ)
 
 Sechs Lebenswege, die sich unmöglich kreuzen können: darunter ein amerikanischer Anwalt, der um 1850 Ozeanien erforscht, ein britischer Komponist, der 1931 vor seinen Gläubigern nach Belgien flieht, und ein koreanischer Klon, der in der Zukunft wegen des Verbrechens angeklagt wird, ein Mensch sein zu wollen. Und dennoch sind diese Geschichten miteinander verwoben. Mitchells originelle Menschheitsgeschichte katapultiert den Leser durch Räume, Zeiten, Genres und Erzählstile und liest sich dabei so leicht und fesselnd wie ein Abenteuerroman.
 
 ?David Mitchell nimmt den Leser mit auf eine literarische Achterbahnfahrt. Und man wünscht sich, diese Reise möge nie enden.? (A.S. Byatt)

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize'Gorgeous'DAILY MAIL'Uproariously funny'EVENING STANDARD'Spellbinding'TATLER'Brilliant'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Luminously beautiful'THE TIMESThe Sunday Times bestselling fourth novel from the critically acclaimed author of Ghostwritten and Cloud AtlasJanuary, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL'A thrilling and gifted writer'FINANCIAL TIMES'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'DAILY MAIL'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'A superb storyteller'THE NEW YORKER

To the unsuspecting, wearing a stethoscope could not be more easy. You pick it up, place it around your neck and...hey presto...you look like you know what you are doing and people think you are a doctor...This is the no-nonsense guide to the reality of medical student life. Everything you need to know is here. What are my chances of delivering a baby? How many questions should I ask? How do I insert a nasogastric tube without the patient knowing it's my first time? Where will I live when I'm on clinical rounds? Why can't I wear trainers? Will patients like me? What is a patient's 'pack year' history? How do I break bad news? How can I get more sleep? And much, much more.

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus Reviews A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Winner of the ALA Alex Award Finalist for the Costa Novel AwardFrom award-winning writer David 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 thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys' games on a frozen lake; of "nightcreeping" through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigr who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason's search to replace his dead grandfather's irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher's recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons. Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell's subtlest and most effective achievement to date. Praise for Black Swan Green " David Mitchell has created] one of the most endearing, smart, and funny young narrators ever to rise up from the pages of a novel. . . . The always fresh and brilliant writing will carry readers back to their own childhoods. . . . This enchanting novel makes us remember exactly what it was like."--The Boston Globe " David Mitchell is a] prodigiously daring and imaginative young writer. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall."--Time

Sovremennaja klassika, monumentalnyj shedevr, voshedshij, kak i mnogie drugie knigi Mitchella, v shortlist Bukerovskoj premii. V 2012 godu roman byl ekranizirovan Tomom Tykverom i bratjami Vachovski (v roljakh Tom Khenks, Khelli Berri, Khju Grant, Dzhim Brodbent, Ben Uishou, Khjugo Uiving, Sjuzen Sarandon), stav, pri bjudzhete svyshe 100 millionov dollarov, samym dorogim nezavisimym filmom v istorii kinematografa. "Oblachnyj atlas" podoben zerkalnomu labirintu, v kotorom pereklikajutsja, naslaivajas drug na druga, shest golosov: notariusa serediny devjatnadtsatogo veka, vozvraschajuschegosja v SSHA iz Avstralii; molodogo kompozitora, vynuzhdennogo torgovat dushoj i telom v Evrope mezhdu mirovymi vojnami; zhurnalistki v Kalifornii 1970-kh, raskryvajuschej korporativnyj zagovor; melkogo izdatelja - nashego sovremennika, umudrivshegosja sorvat bank na banditskoj avtobiografii "Udar kastetom" i beguschego ot kreditorov; klona-prislugi iz predprijatija bystrogo pitanija v Koree - strane pobedivshego kiberpanka; i gavajskogo...

V novom perevode - velikolepnyj roman sovremennogo klassika Devida Mitchella, dvazhdy finalista Bukerovskoj premii, avtora takikh intellektualnykh bestsellerov, kak "Son No9", "Oblachnyj atlas" (nedavno ekranizirovannyj Tomom Tykverom i bratjami Vachovski), "Golodnyj dom" i drugie.Dedzima - kroshechnyj ostrovok pod bokom u ogromnoj feodalnoj Japonii, gollandskaja torgovaja faktorija. Japonija - kroshechnaja ostrovnaja strana pod bokom u tselogo ogromnogo mira, ot kotorogo ona otgorodilas na neskolko vekov i kotoryj zhelaet urvat ot nee lakomyj kusochek, i gollandskaja faktorija - edinstvennoe okno v etot mir. Na Dedzimu - obitalische khitroumnykh kuptsov, kovarnykh perevodchikov i dorogikh kurtizanok - pribyvaet molodoj klerk Jakob de Zut. Za pjat let on dolzhen zarabotat sostojanie dostatochnoe, chtoby prosit ruki ostavshejsja v Rotterdame vozljublennoj - odnako na Dedzime ego vnimaniem zavladevajut molodaja japonskaja akusherka Orito i zloveschij nastojatel dalekogo gornogo monastyrja Enomoto-sensej...

Cloud Atlas

Ein japanischer Sektierer verübt einen Giftgasanschlag auf die U-Bahn. Doch was verbindet ihn mit dem Jazzfan in einem Tokioter Plattenladen? Eine Frau auf einem heiligen Berg in China spricht mit einem Baum, ohne zu ahnen, wie sich gewisse illegale Börsengeschäfte in Hongkong auf ihr Leben auswirken werden. Ein mongolischer Gangster, ein Kunstfälscher in St. Petersburg, ein Nuklearwissenschaftler in Irland, ein New Yorker Late-Night-DJ und ein mysteriöser Ghostwriter - alle tragen zu dieser Geschichte bei. Eine literarische Matrix: geniale Weltsicht voll kluger Ideen und skurrilem Humor. "Dieses Buch ist eines der besten, die ich je gelesen habe." (Antonia S. Byatt)

Talks about: the Southern main line from Axminster to Exeter Central; Seaside branches to Lyme Regis, Seaton, Sidmouth and Exmouth; and the Great Western main line from Exeter St David's to Whiteball Tunnel. This book also talks about: branches to Tiverton and Hemyock; and the Exe Valley line from Stoke Canon through Tiverton to Bampton.

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick'Miraculous'SUNDAY TIMES'A masterful feast'EVENING STANDARD'Shamelessly exciting'SPECTATOR'Remarkable'GUARDIAN'Stunning'DAILY MAILA novel of mind-bending imagination and scope from the author of Ghostwritten and Utopia AvenueSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.*Please note that the end of p. 39 and p. 40 are intentionally blank*PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL'A thrilling and gifted writer'FINANCIAL TIMES'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'DAILY MAIL'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'A superb storyteller'THE NEW YORKER

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a young Pacific islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization - the narrators of this novel hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. "The most exciting British novel of the year" Telegraph "Nothing short of a miracle" The Times "Incendiary" Observer "One of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable" Philip Hensher, Spectator "Astonishing ... an overwhelming literary creation" Lawrence Norfolk, Independent "Close to the miraculous ... No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease." Robert McFarlane, The Sunday Times "He takes risks no other author would dare to, and almost always pulls it off ... For the third time in a row, Mitchell has excelled himself." Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday "Quite startling" Telegraph

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize"A novel as accomplished as anything being written."--NewsweekNumber9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy--an intoxicating ride through Tokyo's dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister's death and his mother's breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses--through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck--a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father's identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name. Praise for Number9Dream "Delirious--a grand blur of overwhelming sensation."--Entertainment Weekly "To call Mitchell's book a simple quest novel . . is like calling Don DeLillo's Underworld the story of a missing baseball."--The New York Times Book Review "Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today."--San Francisco Chronicle "Mitchell's new novel has been described as a cross between Don DeLillo and William Gibson, and although that's a perfectly serviceable cocktail-party formula, it doesn't do justice to this odd, fitfully compelling work."--The New Yorker "Leaping with ease from surrealist fables to a teenage coming-of-age story and then spinning back to Yakuza gangster battles and World War II-era kamikaze diaries, Mitchell is an aerial freestyle ski-jumper of fiction. Somehow, after performing feats of literary gymnastics, he manages to stick the landing."--The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTShortlisted for the Booker and James Tait Black Memorial Prizes'Spellbinding'INDEPENDENT'Exceptional'LITERARY REVIEW'Beautifully precise'GUARDIAN'Marvellous'OBSERVER'Constantly entertaining'EVENING STANDARDThe captivating second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Ghostwritten and Cloud AtlasAs Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL'A thrilling and gifted writer'FINANCIAL TIMES'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'DAILY MAIL'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'A superb storyteller'THE NEW YORKER

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space? A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions--to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea--that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective--strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

This title offers real-world solutions for locating, inoculating and preventing bugs from creating problems. A Risk Factor Analysis (RFA) is provided to anticipate the amount of time required to debug a problem, with methods for treating conflicting Threads in Java.

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTWinner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'Astonishingly accomplished'THE TIMES'Remarkable'OBSERVER'Gripping'NEW YORK TIMES'Fabulously atmospheric'GUARDIAN'Engrossing'DAILY MAILA magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century.An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL'A thrilling and gifted writer'FINANCIAL TIMES'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'DAILY MAIL'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'A superb storyteller'THE NEW YORKER

Covers: railways around Bournemouth; The Somerset and Dorset line north from Bournemouth; The Great Western line from Weymouth; Weymouth, the Quay line and the Easton branch; Branches to Abbotsbury, West Bay and Lyme Regis; and the preserved Swanage branch.