Slade House, A Novel

Resumen del libro

A headlong adrenaline-rush of a new novel by the author The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas, his most entertaining and accessible yet.

An ordinary road in a town like yours: bus routes and red-brick houses. A dank narrow alley, easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. A small black metal door set into the wall: no handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it opens onto a sunlit garden, sloping up to a house that doesn't quite make sense . Go through, and the door closes discreetly behind you. In David Mitchell's exhilarating new novel, 5 guests separated by 9 years enter Slade House for a brief visit only to vanish without trace from the outside world. Who draws them to the heart of Slade House, and why is the house missing from maps? Beginning in 1979 and ending in 2015, these 5 interlacing narratives will enchant Mitchell's readers, old and new, with a signature blend of mystery, realism and the supernatural.

Biografía del autor

David Mitchell was born in Southport in January, 1969.<br><br>His first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under 35 and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.<br><br>His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.<br><br>His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. He has since published Black Swan Green (longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (longisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize). His most recent book, The Bone Clocks, is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.<br><br>In 2003 he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.<br><br>David Mitchell now lives in Ireland.