![]() “The Bone Clocks,” which is being released on Sept. “His new novel is really the first time that many readers can begin to piece the books together.” “ ‘Universe’ doesn’t seem ample enough, because each book shows you how much bigger his world is and expands the limits of what we think his stories are,” said David Ebershoff, Mr. ![]() Mitchell’s books, which span centuries, continents and genres, often within a single work. “Multiverse” may sound like a grandiose metaphysical term to attach to a novelist, but fans and scholars say it aptly describes Mr. Academics and superfans pore over his works with the intensity of Talmudic scholars, and gather at David Mitchell conferences that feature panel discussions on subjects like “Narratology and the Mitchell Multiverse.” Five of his six novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, including his latest, “The Bone Clocks.” His genre-defying 2004 novel, “ Cloud Atlas,” sold a million copies in North America and was adapted into a feature film. ![]() Mitchell has evolved from being a cult author with a small but rabid fan base to a major literary figure whose work has been compared to that of Nabokov, Pynchon and Dostoyevsky. His paranoia may be justified. In the past decade, Mr. “I live in faint dread of people coming to find me,” he said. Mitchell said in a recent telephone interview. ![]() If you traveled to a small parish outside the coastal town of Clonakilty, Ireland, and asked one of the local people to introduce you to the resident writer, you’d invariably be led to David Mitchell. ![]()
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