Adam Ewing est un homme de loi américain, embarqué à bord d'une goélette partie de Nouvelle-Zélande et faisant route vers San Francisco, sa ville natale. Il n'a rien à voir avec Robert Frobisher, lequel, un siècle plus tard, se met au service d'un compositeur génial pour échapper à ses créanciers. Ni l'un ni l'autre …
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical bildungsroman written by David Mitchell. It was published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK. The novel's thirteen chapters each represent one month—from January 1982 through January 1983—in the life of 13-year-old Worcestershire boy Jason Taylor. The novel is …
David Mitchell's electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters-a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering …
Les Mille Automnes de Jacob de Zoet est le cinquième roman de l'écrivain anglais David Mitchell. Publié en 2010, l'histoire se passe à la fin du XVIIIᵉ siècle au Japon dans la concession néerlandaise de Dejima pendant la période d'isolement de l'archipel.
number9dream is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan, it narrates the search of 19-year-old Eiji Miyake for his father, whom he has never met. Told in the first person by Eiji, it is a coming of age/perception story that breaks convention by juxtaposing Eiji Miyake’s actual journey toward …
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2014: Fans of David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet) have been salivating over the release of The Bone Clocks —and they have every reason to. This is a feast of a book—perhaps the author’s best to date—a saga that spans decades, …
The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | A Publishers Weekly Literary Fiction Top 10 Pick for Fall 2015 Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, …