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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.”

大衛·米切爾，英國著名作傢，歐美文學界公認的新一代小說大師。1969年生於英格蘭伍斯特郡，在肯特大學主修英美文學、比較文學。曾在日本廣島擔任工程係學生的英文教師八年。

米切爾博采村上春樹、奧斯特、卡爾維諾、博爾赫斯諸大師作品所長，自成一派，其作波詭雲譎，靈氣無窮。處女作《幽靈代筆》（1999）震撼歐美文學界，榮獲萊斯文學奬，入圍《衛報》處女作奬決選；《九號夢》（2001）入圍布剋奬和詹姆斯·泰特·布萊剋紀念奬決選，米切爾也因此書被評為英國優秀青年小說傢；《雲圖》（2004）榮膺英國國傢圖書奬小說奬和理查與茱蒂讀書俱樂部年度選書，同時入圍布剋奬、星雲奬、剋拉剋奬決選，改編同名電影轟動全球；《綠野黑天鵝》（2006）獲得美國圖書館協會青少年圖書和《學校圖書館報》圖書稱號，入圍科斯塔圖書奬和《洛杉磯時報》圖書奬；《雅各布·德佐特的韆鞦》（2010）問鼎英聯邦作傢奬，入圍司各特曆史小說奬；《骨鍾》（2014）獲世界奇幻大奬優秀小說奬；《斯雷德大宅》（2015）入選多傢國際媒體年度優秀圖書榜單。

米切爾小說原創性十足，為二十一世紀英語小說開啓瞭全新的模式與風貌。2007年，以傑齣的文學成就被美國《時代》雜誌評為“世界100位較具影響力的人物”之一。