In Britain, where he was born, Mitchell became a literary phenomenon with the appearance of his first novel, Ghostwritten (1999). Mitchell’s popularity over here was given an pseudo-official stamp of approval in the winter of 2010-11 when President Obama chose Mitchell’s fifth and latest novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) as one of his vacation reads. newspapers followed suit: “An exciting, almost overwhelming masterpiece” (Washington Times) “revolutionary” (Newsday) “thrilling” (Boston Sunday Globe). The New York Times Book Review greeted this book ecstatically: “Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. His name meant little or nothing to many Americans until 2007, when Time magazine placed Mitchell 16th on its list of 100 men and women “whose talent, power and moral example is transforming the world.” He was the only literary figure in the list and was credited with having “created the 21st-century novel.” In fact, this kind of hype began even earlier in the States with reviewers' reception of his third novel, Cloud Atlas, in 2004. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Random House, 2010, 479 pp.Black Swan Green Random House, 2006, 294 pp.Cloud Atlas Random House, 2004, 509 pp.Number9Dream Random House, 2001, 400 pp.Ghostwritten Random House, 1999, 426 pp.Roth l Rushdie l Self l Smith l Wintersonĭavid Mitchell: Perfectly Plausible Worlds Email: l Amis l Barnes l Beckett l Carter l Finney l Ishiguro l McEwan l Mitchell l Mo
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