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Zoals je van David Mitchell kan verwachten een licht bevreemdend verhaal. Het verhaal begint in 1984 en eindigt in 2043. Hoofdrolspeelster is Holly Sykes die als tiener meisje van huis loopt nadat haar vriendje haar bedrogen heeft met haar beste vriendin. Op hetzelfde moment verdwijnt ook haar jonge broertje, Jacko. Verschillende verhaallijnen verweven zich met elkaar: een gevierd doch passé auteur kruist Holly's pad, een charmante oplichter, en inmiddels wordt Holly ook betrokken in een strijd tussen twee groepen onsterfelijken. Het boek eindigt met een pre/post-apocalyptisch wereldbeeld. Tot driekwart van het boek vond ik het boek boeiend tegen de 5 sterren waard. Het laatste deel van het verhaal vond ik minder. Vandaar 4 sterren
Mitchell's plotting is as intricate as ever, and he indulges in many familiar tricks. Themes, characters and images recur in different configurations, as in a complex musical work; characters from earlier Mitchell books make guest appearances; there are sly references to Mitchell's literary reputation, as well as to the works of other writers.... Mitchell is a writer who will always do his own thing, and the question to ask about his work isn't how profound it is, or what category it belongs to, but how much fun it is to read. And on that measure, The Bone Clocks scores highly. In fact, Holly’s emergence from “The Bone Clocks” as the most memorable and affecting character Mr. Mitchell has yet created is a testament to his skills as an old-fashioned realist, which lurk beneath the razzle-dazzle postmodern surface of his fiction, and which, in this case, manage to transcend the supernatural nonsense in this arresting but bloated novel. Another exacting, challenging and deeply rewarding novel from logophile and time-travel master Mitchell PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Literature.
Science Fiction.
David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. 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 from occupied 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. From the Hardcover edition. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden.
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Fantastisch, dit boek palmt je in van begin tot einde! Ongelooflijke opbouw en concept.Betoverend, beklemmend, beklijvend! ***** ruim verdiend! ( )