Bücher von David Mitchell

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearSouls 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 p39 and p40 are intentionally blank*

Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies. A stranger greets you and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs . . .

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 One 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.Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this kaleidoscopic novel crackles with the invention and wit that have made David Mitchell one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. Here is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable best.

Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.A 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.

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'Fifty Shades of Beige' is my first poetry anthology and, quite possibly, my last. It is a set of poems about life in the retirement years, a subject which has given me much material since I joined the ranks back in 2009. I am indebted to all those who have unwittingly given me inspiration. Names have been necessarily changed in order to avoid legal action. I hope you will enjoy entering a world where health issues are never far away from conversations, where Knit and Natter is dominated by the latter and where once orderly garages are now rammed with offspring's worldly belongings. Where else would you have an anthology featuring dishwashers, bins and Wordle? So, pour yourself a dry sherry, find your slippers and retire to your cosy armchair. You might just manage to read a few poems before 'Tipping Point' comes on.

In der Londoner Psychedelic-Szene der späten Sixties finden sich Folksängerin Elf Holloway, Bluesbassist Dean Moss, der Gitarrenvirtuose Jasper de Zoet und der Jazzdrummer Griff Griffin und erschaffen zusammen einen einzigartigen Sound, mit Texten, die den Aufbruchsgeist der Zeit atmen. Nur zwei Alben produziert die Band. Doch ihr Erbe lebt fort.    Dies ist die Geschichte von Utopia Avenues kurzer, rasanter Reise, von den kleinen Clubs in Soho und den englischen Provinzkäffern ins Land der Verheißung, Amerika - als der technicolorbunte Sommer der Liebe gerade etwas viel Dunklerem weicht. Ein greller Trip ins Land der Träume, der Drogen, des Sex, des Wahnsinns und der Trauer, ein Buch über einen faustischen Pakt für Ruhm und Erfolg, über den Zusammenprall von jugendlichem Aufbruch und trister Spießigkeit.    Doch vor allem ist dies ein gewaltiger Liebesbrief an die Musik der Sixties, an deren Kraft, uns über alle Grenzen hinweg zu verbinden. David Mitchells «Utopia Avenue» ruft eine Zeit voller Träume und Verheißungen zurück, die immer noch nachwirken.

Life and Labours of Rev. Anselm Schuster - late city missionary in Belleville, together with some of his articles published in is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud AtlasA 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.

Das neue Buch von David Mitchell, dem Autor des von den Wachowski-Geschwistern verfilmten, genre- und zeitenübergreifenden Romans «Der Wolkenatlas»: ein Schauerroman par excellence.Geh die Slade Alley hinunter- schmal, feucht und leicht zu verfehlen, selbst wenn du sie suchst. Finde das kleine schwarze Eisentor in der Mauer zur Rechten. Keine Klinke, kein Schlüsselloch, aber wenn du es berührst, schwingt es auf. Tritt in den sonnendurchfluteten Garten eines alten Hauses, das dort unpassend wirkt: zu nobel für die schäbige Nachbarschaft, irgendwie zu groß für das Grundstück. Ein Fremder begrüßt dich und führt dich hinein. Zunächst möchtest du gar nicht mehr fort. Dann merkst du, dass du es nicht mehr kannst. Denn alle neun Jahre, am letzten Sonntag im Oktober, wird ein «Gast» ins Slade House eingeladen. Doch warum wurde er oder sie ausgewählt, von wem und zu welchem Zweck? Die Antwort findet sich dort am hinteren Ende des Flurs, oben am Absatz der Treppe.«Slade House» ist ein raffiniert komponiertes Schauerstück. Und auch eine literarische Hommage an die großen Klassiker der phantastischen Literatur, von «Alice im Wunderland» bis zur «Rocky Horror Picture Show»- ein Buch wie eine Escher'sche Kippfigur, von einem der einfallsreichsten und phantasiebegabtesten Schriftsteller der zeitgenössischen Literatur. Mitchell zaubert bunt und lustvoll und verzaubert damit uns.

Atemberaubend, klug und voller SprachlustAn einem verschlafenen Sommertag des Jahres 1984 läuft die junge Holly Sykes voller Wut von zu Hause fort. Auf ihrer ziellosen Flucht begegnet sie einer alten Frau, die ihr eine sinnlos erscheinende Nachricht mit auf den Weg gibt. Jahrzehnte werden vergehen, bis Holly versteht, was die alte Frau für ihre Existenz bedeutet, aber nach und nach merkt sie: Hinter der Wirklichkeit, die sie kennt, verbirgt sich unendlich viel mehr ... Ein Roman, so wild und einfallsreich wie die Phantastik Haruki Murakamis und Stephen Kings, aber mit einem ganz eigenen, überbordenden Sound. Ein bewusstseinsveränderndes Lesevergnügen und ein würdiger Nachfolger für Mitchells Weltbestseller «Der Wolkenatlas».

Tagträume und Albträume in TokioDer neunzehnjährige Träumer Eiji Miyake kommt aus dem ländlichen Japan nach Tokio, um seinen Vater zu suchen, der die Familie früh verlassen hat. Während er in der faszinierenden großen Stadt herumirrt, gerät er in Berührung mit den Kräften, die ihre geheime Unterwelt beherrschen: Yakuza-Gangs und Cyberpunks. Plötzlich ist das Rätsel der Identität seines Vaters nur noch eines von vielen, die er lösen muss. Warum ist die Grenze zwischen der Welt seiner Erfahrungen und der seiner Träume so verschwommen? Und was hat es mit dem Geheimnis der Zahl 9 auf sich? Diese Fragen verlangen Eiji Einsichten ab, die jedem schwerfielen, erst recht einem Jungen vom Lande, der weniger Geld in der Tasche hat, als das titelgebende Album mit dem Lennon-Song kostet.«Das ist nicht nur ein Vergnügen, das ist große, wirklich großartige Literatur.» (The Observer)

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.Praise for Cloud Atlas "[David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page."-The New York Times Book Review "One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is-and should be-read by any student of contemporary literature."-Dave Eggers "Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative."-People "The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet-not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds."-Michael Chabon "Cloud Atlas ought to make [Mitchell] famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent."-The Washington Post Book World "Thrilling . . . One of the biggest joys in Cloud Atlas is watching Mitchell sashay from genre to genre without a hitch in his dance step."-Boston Sunday Globe "Grand and elaborate . . . [Mitchell] creates a world and language at once foreign and strange, yet strikingly familiar and intimate."-Los Angeles Times

Japan, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts: Der junge Jacob de Zoet kommt mit einer Gruppe Handelsabgeordneter aus Niederländisch-Indien auf die Insel Dejima im Hafen von Nagasaki. Obwohl verheiratet, verliebt er sich bald unsterblich in die Hebamme Orito Aibagawa. Ihre Verbindung steht aber unter keinem guten Stern, denn Ausländern ist es verboten, das japanische Festland zu betreten. Weiterer Ärger droht, als Jacob sich gegen seine Vorgesetzten stellt und sich weigert, das gefälschte Verzeichnis einer Schiffsladung zu unterzeichnen. Aber auch Oritos Schicksal nimmt eine schreckliche Wendung ... Ein spannender und aufwühlender historischer Roman über die Liebe, gelesen von Doris Wolters und Johannes Steck.David Mitchell ist Brite und lebte sechs Jahre lang in Tokio. Er ist mit einer Japanerin verheiratet. Er gehört zu jenen polyglotten britischen Autoren, deren Thema nichts weniger als die ganze Welt ist. Für sein Werk wurde er u.a. mit dem John-Llewellyn-Rhys-Preis ausgezeichnet, zweimal stand er auf der Booker-Shortlist. 2011 erhielt er den Commonwealth Writers’ Prize für "Die tausend Herbste des Jacob de Zoet", 2015 den World Fantasy Award für "Die Knochenuhren". Sein Weltbestseller "Der Wolkenatlas" wurde von Tom Tykwer und den Wachowski-Geschwistern verfilmt.

Originally published in 2005. David Mitchell provides a better understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the process: deliberation and outcome of policy making.

Through a lucid and thought-provoking exploration of the concept of perversity in Sartre and Nietzsche, Mitchell argues that understanding the human as a 'perversion' of something other than itself allows us to have a philosophy of the human without the humanist subject.

David Mitchell's connection with cricket began when his grandad took him to Bradford in 1961 to watch Yorkshire play the Australians. It was the start of a lifelong passion for the game. Many hours were devoted to helping in the scorebox, playing Owzthat and listening to Test Match Special. 'From Snicket to Wicket' is a personal, nostalgic and whimsical view of a game once played by white-clad players with a red ball. Now it is the opposite.

Building with Butterflies shows you how to build stunning modular origami sculptures from simple units folded from ordinary paper without the use of cuts or glue. Clear diagrams and instructions guide you through the whole process, how to fold the very simple units (or modules), how to put them together into basic modular structures, then how to combine these basic structures into large and beautiful sculptures. This is the second and much expanded edition of this classic work which remains the out and out leader in the field.

Origami Alfresco is a quirky and unusual portfolio of clear diagrams for 50 of David Mitchell's simple yet amazing origami designs, created from the contrast between the white and coloured sides of standard origami paper, and includes sections on Animals and People, Inanimate Objects, Double Images, The Sea and Landscapes.As you would expect from the author, many of these designs are much more than just static sketches. Some, like Freefall/Limbo, can be viewed in several completely different ways, while others, like Lovebird or Dogfish turn from one thing into another. There are action designs, like Shark Attack and Hull Down, optical illusions like Head to Head and Paradozocal Object, and even a Find the Lady puzzle as well. This book is both simple enough for complete beginners but also one that the origami aficionado will cherish and enjoy.This second edition has been completely revised and expanded. Half the designs are new to this second edition.