The Bone Clocks: A Novel

<b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestseller by the author of <i>Cloud Atlas </i>| Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize | <b>Named One of the Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year by <i>Time, Entertainment Weekly, </i>and<i> O: The Oprah Magazine</i></b> | A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book | <b>An American Library Association Notable Book | Winner of the World Fantasy Award</b></b><br> <b> </b><br><b>Named to more than 20 year-end best of lists, including</b><br><b>NPR | <i>San Francisco Chronicle | The Atlantic | The Guardian</i></b><i><b> | Slate | BuzzFeed</b><br></i><br><i>Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.</i><br><br><b>&quot;With <i>The Bone Clocks,</i> [David] Mitchell rises to meet and match the legacy of <i>Cloud Atlas</i>.&quot; - <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br>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 &quot;the radio people,&quot; 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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> 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. <br> <br> Rich with character and realms of possibility, <i>The Bone Clocks</i> is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer <i>The</i> <i>Washington Post</i> calls &quot;the novelist who's been showing us the future of fiction.&quot;<br> <br> 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, <i>The Bone Clocks,</i> crackles with invention and wit and sheer storytelling pleasure - it is fiction at its most spellbinding.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>The Bone Clocks</i></b><br> <br>&quot;One of the most entertaining and thrilling novels I've read in a long time.&quot;<b> - Meg Wolitzer, NPR</b><br><br>&quot;[Mitchell] writes with a furious intensity and slapped-awake vitality, with a delight in language and all the rabbit holes of experience.&quot;<b> - <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br> &quot;Intensely compelling . . . fantastically witty . . . offers up a rich selection of domestic realism, gothic fantasy and apocalyptic speculation.&quot;<b> - <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <br> &quot;[A] time-traveling, culture-crossing, genre-bending marvel of a novel.&quot;<b> - <i>O: The Oprah Magazine</i></b><br> <br> &quot;Great fun . . . a tour de force . . . [Mitchell] channels his narrators with vivid expertise.&quot;<b> - <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>