Volker Oldenburg Livres

The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell. Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 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.

Jason verliert seinen Job und wird von Außerirdischen entführt. An Bord eines Raumschiffs erfährt er von einem teuflischen Plan der 'Total Trading Corporation', das Weltall zu sprengen. Unklar bleibt, warum ausgerechnet er und seine Freundin Alex diese Katastrophe aufhalten sollen.