Mitchell, David (David Stephen)

The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet : a novel by David Mitchell ( Book )
34 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 2,602 libraries worldwide
1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has 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 of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.

Black swan green : a novel by David Mitchell ( Book )
45 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in 11 languages and held by 2,264 libraries worldwide
A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.

Cloud atlas : a novel by David Mitchell ( Book )
32 editions published between 2003 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 1,873 libraries worldwide
Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalayptic world.

Number9dream : a novel by David Mitchell ( Book )
20 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 1,269 libraries worldwide
"In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming -of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister's death and his mother's breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses - through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck - a number of its secret power centers." From the bookjacket.

Ghostwritten : a novel by David Mitchell ( Book )
11 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,084 libraries worldwide
The tales of nine very different characters in nine different cities that "don't end, [but] scarily morph and transmute into each other as we travel through them in the company of a crazed cult member, a corrupt lawyer, a Tokyo jazz aficionado, an art thief, a New York late-night DJ."--Booklist.

Ghostwritten : a novel in nine parts by David Mitchell ( Book )
6 editions published between 1999 and 2006 in English and held by 203 libraries worldwide

A riot of goldfish by Kanoko Okamoto ( Book )
1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 83 libraries worldwide

Wolkenatlas by David Mitchell ( Book )
7 editions published between 2004 and 2011 in Dutch and German and held by 18 libraries worldwide
Bundel verhalen die zich op verschillende tijden en plaatsen afspelen, maar toch raakvlakken met elkaar tonen.

De niet verhoorde gebeden van Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell ( Book )
1 edition published in 2010 in Dutch and held by 16 libraries worldwide
Een nieuwe ambtenaar van de VOC arriveert op het eiland Desima, de enige plaats waar contact met Japan mogelijk is, om er onderzoek te verrichten naar fraude met VOC-eigendommen..

Ecrits fantômes by David Mitchell ( Book )
2 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in French and held by 15 libraries worldwide
Dix histoires qui forment un tout, mettant en scène des personnages singuliers : un membre d'une secte apocalyptique auteur d'un attentat dans le métro de Tokyo, deux amoureux mélomanes, une femme qui parle à un arbre, l'esprit d'un gangster mongol qui voyage de corps en corps, etc.