Bone clock

The new translation is the magnificent novel of the modern classic David Mitchell, twice the finalist of the Buker Prize, the author of such intellectual bestseller as “Dream No. 9”, “Cloud Atlas” (recently filmed by Tom with a pumpkin and brothers Vachovsky), “Hungry House” and others. In the “bone watches”, Mitchell continues and develops topics raised in the “cloud atlas” and in -depths in the “hungry house”. “A wonderful story, a wonderful language, everything is fine,” Stephen King wrote about the “bone watches”. “One of the best novels of the year, not inferior to the long -awaited“ Shchegla "Donna Tartt in literary depth. ” “The triumphal, stunning, dizzying trip around the world,” the venerable Ursula Le Guin echoed him in her review. “The frightening dark depths of the "bone watches" are impudently hidden behind witty tricks and verbal lace, which the inimitable storyteller David Mitchell weaves.”
So, get acquainted with the main character: “Holly Sykes, a simple English girl, is in no way inferior to Holden Colldus” (Booklist) Once, a hot summer day, she runs out of the house: a wayward teenager, a rebel with a broken heart, an involuntary pawn in a secret global conflict. Once she heard the voices of “Radio Luda”-now the secret of one lost weekend comes around at various key moments of her life. And year after year, she racks her head what the seven -year -old brother Jeko had in mind, handing her a cardboard with an “infernal labyrinth” and ordering him to memorize him by heart: “When you go along this labyrinth, the darkness follows you” ...
“The bone clock” is the excellent work of the master, who can be happy to read both as a literary riddle and as an extraordinary life story for an ordinary woman for six stormy decades ”(San Francisco Chronicle)