The Booksmith Presents
An Evening with David Mitchell
in conversation with Adam Johnson
An elegant conjurer of
interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and master prose stylist,
David Mitchell—the prizewinning author of Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green,
and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet—has become one of the leading
literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks,
crackles with invention and wit—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. It is a
thing of enormous beauty.
Pico Iyer's front page New York Times Book Review review
David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas,
Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the
Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in
the world by TIME magazine in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell
co-translated from the Japanese the international bestselling memoir, The
Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
Talking on stage with David Mitchell this evening is Adam Johnson, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son
Wednesday, September 24 at the Sundance Kabuki Theater, 1881 Post Street, San Francisco
VIP reception 6:30 - 7:15 PM
Program 7:30 PM
Tickets available only at Brown Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006
$40 (one seat and one copy of The Bone Clocks)
$65 (one seat and one copy of The Bone Clocks, and a private VIP reception with the author, including marvelous hors d'oeuvres and drinks); limited number available
NOTE: You will pick up your copy of The Bone Clocks at the door when you check in on 9/24, OR you may pick up your copy in the store beginning 9/2/14 and through 11 AM on 9/24/14; if you wish to pick it up at the store, please bring your ticket or will call notice, and photo ID!
