Dejima, comptoir de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales, ou la promesse d'une fortune facile. Jeune clerc, Jacob de Zoet débarque sur l'île en 1799, bercé par l'espoir d'un mariage à son retour. Là, il est comme envoûté par Mlle Aibagawa, douce sage-femme au visage étrangement brûlé. Or la demoiselle est enlevée sous ses yeux par le diabolique Enomoto et conduite sur le mont Shiranui...
Adam Ewing est un homme de loi américain, embarqué à bord d'une goélette partie de Nouvelle-Zélande et faisant route vers San Francisco, sa ville natale. Il n'a rien à voir avec Robert Frobisher, lequel, un siècle plus tard, se met au service d'un compositeur génial pour échapper à ses créanciers. Ni l'un ni l'autre ne peuvent connaître Luisa Rey, une journaliste d'investigation sur la piste d'un complot nucléaire, dans la Californie des années 1970. Ou Sonmi~451, un clone condamné à mort par un État situé dans le futur. Pourtant, si l'espace et le temps les séparent, tous ces êtres participent d'un destin commun, dont la signification se révèle peu à peu. Chaque vie est l'écho d'une autre et revient sans cesse, telle une phrase musicale qui se répéterait au fil d'innombrables variations. Comme Écrits fantômes (2004), Cartographie des nuages invite le lecteur à plonger dans un des univers romanesques les plus singuliers du XXIe siècle.
A rare and important insight into the mind of an autistic child, in his own words. Translated by and with a moving introduction from the award-winning author of CLOUD ATLAS, David Mitchell
An anthology collected from four centuries of travel writing about Spain and presented with a linking text by David Mitchell. Authors quoted include Casanova, the Duke of Wellington, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh, George Melly and Jan Morris.
This guide is designed to help the reader get more out of karate. It covers core skills, drills and tactics of the sport.
This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a few lucky bastards ending up on top. Some of these bastards were quite strange, but they were in charge, so we quite literally lived, and often still live, by their rules. It's a great story. And it's our story. If you want to know who we are in modern Britain, you need to read this book.
A fascinating and authoritative source of information on all of the major martial arts.Explanation of the principal characteristics and key techniques of the different disciplines.Over 300 action-packed photographs including step-by-step sequences.
Impressions of four centuries of foreign travellers in Spain. Outrageous, adoring, insulting, libellous, passionate, hilarious, thoughtful, bigoted eloquent remarks.
Ghostwritten is a novel set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, and features a host of characters. A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forgery, a ghostwriter and a late night DJ all have tales to tell.
It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigré, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls. BLACK SWAN GREEN charts thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. Wry, painful, funny and vibrant with the stuff of life, it is David Mitchell's subtlest and most captivating achievement to date.
