日本地铁恐怖袭击者的内心独白；困居香港的堕落英国律师发出的濒死哀鸣，四川圣山上的老妇人变幻莫测的一生；圣彼得堡艺术窃贼精心策划的阴谋：女核物理学家返回爱尔兰的旅程……在世界的九个角落，九个角色朝着一个共同的命运飞驰，全然意识不到各自的生命正以一种迷 人的方式彼此交错、互相影响。
从这部关于爱、形而上、历史、政治和幽灵的小说中，浮现出一个有关我们共同人性的令人难以忘却的幻象，它令众人的故事比其本身更为微妙复杂；小说中那一幕幕平行生命的穿梭往还，充斥着人类生存的喧嚣、骚动、痛苦与向往。

《格兰塔》是世界上最著名的文学杂志之一。它1889年创刊于英国剑桥大学，名字取自剑桥附近的格兰塔河，是剑桥大学的一份学生刊物。1970年，《格兰塔》因资金等原因停刊。1979年，两个剑桥大学的美国留学生比尔•巴福特和乔纳森•莱维对当时文坛沉闷的氛围很不满。为了撼动既有的文学格局，便接手《格兰塔》，以季刊的形式重新出版。
《格兰塔》打出的口号是一份“新写作杂志”。他们每期设定一个主题，重点推出英美文坛年轻作家的文学作品。三十四年来，《格兰塔》紧扣宗旨：“让读者免于沉闷；成为英国文化的先锋；用有力、独特、原创的故事来展现”， 它每十年评选的“英国最佳青年小说家”名单，囊括了英国后来的大部分名家。许多享誉世界的大作家伊恩•麦克尤恩、萨尔曼•拉什迪、保罗•奥斯特、扎蒂•史密斯等作家的文学生涯，都是从《格兰塔》起步的。
《格兰塔》的影响遍及全世界，迄今已有十多个国际版本。经过一年多的筹备，九久读书人与上海文艺出版社终于联手启动《格兰塔》主题书的出版。
与英文版《格兰塔》每年定期出版四期不同，中文版《格兰塔》将为每年不定期出版二、三辑的主题系列书。第一辑主题“不列颠”，收入十八位英国老中青三代作家的作品，其中包括中国读者熟悉的大卫•米切尔、A.S.拜厄特、石黑一雄、珍妮特•温特森、哈尼夫•库雷西、萨拉•沃特斯等著名作家，有威廉•博伊德、哈里•孔兹鲁、杰夫•戴尔等中国读者比较陌生的实力派作家，还有罗伯特•麦克法兰、乔•邓索恩等新生代作家，既有短篇小说、长篇小说节选、纪实、游记散文，也有戏剧剧本、诗歌、图片专题，从各个方面反映英国的历史文化和社会风貌。
我们相信，《格兰塔》中文版第一辑是用各种形式来讲述一个精彩故事的绝妙范例。而怎样讲述故事，不仅仅是一个美学问题。它也是一个与哲学有关的问题。在这一辑的许多故事里，这还是与家园有关的问题，你的心在哪里？你忠心于谁？

《Cloud Atlas》（《云图》，2004）是大卫.米切尔的第三部小说。这本书由六段故事构成，从1840年一位美国人从悉尼旅行到旧金山的日记、二十世纪三十年代初居住在比利时的年轻作曲家、1975年卷入加利福尼亚灾难的年轻记者、当今伦敦出版回忆录的黑道、1984年韩国发生的故事与一个老人叙述当时在夏威夷的青春自语为终结。 《Cloud Atlas》入围2004年布克奖（Man Booker Prize）。

《雲圖》作者又一史詩巨作
藉由攝人靈魂維持不死的隱遁士，
和靈魂不死、肉體不斷重生的骨鐘師，
他們究竟想從凡人女子荷莉身上得到什麼？
榮獲2015年世界奇幻獎最佳小說獎、入圍曼布克獎
《時代》雜誌選為2014年10大必讀小說
史蒂芬．金評為2014年最棒小說之一
Am azon2014年編輯選書之一
授權20多國、橫掃英美20多家媒體暢銷排行榜
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1984年，15歲的荷莉為了男友跟媽媽大吵一架，憤而離家出走。2043年，她身在愛爾蘭最西端的羊岬島，此時地球氣候早已變遷，原油供應斷絕，瀕臨末日……
荷莉自小就能聽到不知從何而來的聲音，她都把那些聲音叫做「收音機人」。離家出走那晚，她在英格蘭的鄉間遊蕩，一齣齣巧合與異象彷如惡夢接連發生。原來，荷莉的特異體質吸引了對立數百年的兩派人士注意──藉由攝人靈魂維持不老肉身的隱遁士，以及肉身雖死、靈魂卻能不斷輪迴重生的骨鐘師──而荷莉可能就是雙方的致勝武器。
自那晚起，荷莉再也逃不開兩派人馬的角力鬥爭……
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「歷史」與「輪迴」一直是米契爾作品中的兩個重要主題。骨鐘派的骨鐘師不斷在不同的肉體中輪迴，經歷了無數不同的人生，這與荷莉的有限生命形成強烈對比，而這種相對於無限輪迴的有限性，便是《雲圖》與《骨時鐘》所分別側重的不同點……我們透過小說見證了一段有限的生命歷史，它龐大、紛雜並且悲喜交錯……──推理作家林斯諺
【本書特色】
◎ 六段故事，從過去到未來橫跨60年，地點包括英國、瑞士、伊拉克、挪威、冰島、愛爾蘭，每段故事主角不同，荷莉在每段故事中都不可或缺，拼湊出一個離奇女子的一生。
◎ 故事架構打破既有格局。全新且革命性的小說閱讀，讓人大開眼界、為之瘋狂。《英國衛報》讚譽：為二十一世紀的小說模式開啟了新風貌。
◎ 風格與架構無人能複製：只有大衛．米契爾才寫得出這樣的作品。
◎ 榮獲2015年世界奇幻獎最佳小說獎！入圍曼布克獎初選。
◎ 《時代》雜誌選為2014年10大必讀小說之一。史蒂芬．金選為2014年最棒小說之一。2014年Amazon編輯選書之一。
◎ 《慾望城市》女主角莎拉．潔西卡．帕克也在讀的小說。
◎ 英國最重要的新生代作家。在小說風格上有革命性的創新，從保羅．奧斯特、馬丁．艾米斯、村上春樹中汲取養分，哺育出全然原創且獨特的風格。
◎ 故事流暢，視角多元，架構嚴謹，文字充滿張力，內容千變萬化，世界觀設定宏大，超乎想像力的史詩大作。可以讓重度小說讀者痴迷、嘆為觀止。
【得獎記錄】
榮獲2015年世界奇幻獎最佳小說獎
《時代》雜誌選為2014年10大必讀小說
史蒂芬．金評為2014年最棒小說之一
授權20多國、橫掃英美20多家媒體暢銷排行榜
【媒體推薦 】
最大膽，最毛骨悚然——更重要的是，最富娛樂性的英國新生代小說家。——《觀察者報》
英國——乃至世界各國——最睿智、最有創造力的作家。——《獨立報》
擁有非凡抱負與技巧的作家。——《週日獨立報》
一旦他提筆創作，一曲滿載創新點子、叫人神往的魔幻交響樂就會源源不絕流淌而出。」——《泰晤士報》
目眩神迷、眼花繚亂地精彩。——《每日郵報》
米契爾的想像力無遠弗屆，無微不至，他同時也無比幽默。——《週日電訊報》
天才說書人……可望成為同世代英國作家中的佼佼者。——《週日郵報》
他的小說無與倫比。——《旁觀者報》

《雅各的千秋之年》、《雲圖》作者驚豔文壇的處女作
★《週日郵報》萊斯文學獎
★《衛報》小說新人獎決選
李立亨│資深藝術策展人（專文推薦）
甘耀明│作家、楊照│作家、駱以軍│小說家　感動推薦
作者用九個不同主角，九段耐人尋味的故事，在不同文字風格之間變換自如，與讀者玩起虛實莫辨的遊戲，藉由隱藏在九個獨立篇章中的細微線索，串起一個隱然相連的故事，訴說著愛、人性與生命的哲理。
˙藏身沖繩的東京地鐵恐怖分子的獨白
˙酷愛爵士樂、在東京唱片行打工的少年
˙困居香港窮途末路的英國律師
˙聖山上的老婦人變幻莫測的一生
˙在蒙古遊蕩、轉生於不同人類宿主身上的幽靈
˙聖彼得堡藝術竊賊精心策劃的陰謀
˙女物理學家逃亡返回愛爾蘭的旅程
˙浪蕩倫敦街頭的靈魂代筆兼搖滾樂團鼓手
˙紐約廣播DJ的節目現場
九個故事分散在地球的不同角落，九個互不相識或偶然擦身而過的角色，朝著共同的命運飛馳，全然意識不到各自的生命間有著微妙關係，正以一種迷人的方式彼此交錯、互相影響。他們沿著各自的生命軌跡前行，他們的腳步在某個不經意的瞬間交疊，當綿長的故事接近尾聲，你已回到第一章的入口。

Be transported to a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th-century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself.

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran Lps, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.
Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s subtlest and most effective achievement to date.

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .
Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. 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 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.
Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”

January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.

One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking ...The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up - a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon. Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this kaleidoscopic novel crackles with the invention and wit that have made David Mitchell one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. Here is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable best.

Imagine an empire that has shut out the world for a century and a half. No one can leave, foreigners are excluded, their religions banned and their ideas deeply mistrusted. Yet a narrow window onto this nation-fortress still exists: an artificial walled island connected to a mainland port, and manned by a handful of European traders. And locked as the land-gate may be, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds -- or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell's panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a dark adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin -- and all the while, unbeknownst to him and his feuding compatriots, the axis of global power is turning...

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland.

But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?”

A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.

Turn down Slade Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.
A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.
This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs...

Book Description
January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11.2

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 British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York-hurtle toward a shared destiny of astonishing impact. Like the book's one non-human narrator, Mitchell latches onto his host characters and invades their lives with parasitic precision, making Ghostwritten a sprawling and brilliant literary relief map of the modern world.

一个名叫EijiMiyake的日本年轻人在母亲和姐妹相继亡故后，从乡下来到繁华都市东京，寻找当年抛弃家庭的父亲。在此过程中，他遇到了种种困难，甚至被卷入了东京黑手党的阴谋中。这座庞大的城市令他迷惑恐惧，而黑势力似乎无处不在，厄运总是追随著他。抽著烟，他游荡在东京的大街小巷，试图发现他父亲的生活的真相，解开心中的疑惑。他的思绪在现实和梦想间穿行，读者渐渐也迷失了真实世界和梦想世界的界限，但同时更加深了对心理世界的了解。这部作品进入2002年布克奖的决选名单，再次展现了大卫·米歇尔自如调动不同文体和戏剧化运用文学手段的能力。

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back - unaware of the effect the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life. Add to this - a Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, a despondent 'zookeeper', a nuclear scientist, a ghostwriter, a ghost, and a late night New York DJ whose hard-boiled scepticism has been his undoing. All of them have tales to tell, and all must play their part as they are caught up in the inescapable forces of cause and effect.