For Noah
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
A Hot Spell: 1984
June 30
July 1
July 2
Myrrh Is Mine, Its Bitter Perfume: 1991
December 13
December 20
December 23
December 29
December 30
December 31
New Year’s Day, 1992
The Wedding Bash: 2004
April 16
April 17
Crispin Hershey’s Lonely Planet: 2015
May 1, 2015
March 11, 2016
March 12, 2016
February 21, 2017
August 20, 2018
September 17, 2019
September 19, 2019
September 20, 2019
September 23, 2019
December 13, 2020
An Horologist’s Labyrinth: 2025
April 1
April 3
April 4
April 5
April 6
April 7
Sheep’s Head: 2043
October 26
October 27
October 28
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Other Books by This Author
Acknowledgments
Michel van der Aa, Lisa Babalis, Tom Barbash, Nikki Barrow, Avideh Bashirrad, Manuel Berri, Dominika Bojanowska, John Boyne, Adam Brophy, Ken Buhler, Amber Burlinson, Evan Camfield, Gina Centrello, Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Noah Chasin, Kate Childs, Rachel Clements, Patrick Cockburn and his book The Occupation, Toby Cox, Louise Dennys, Walter Donohue, Margaret Drabble, Susan Fletcher, Dominique Fortier, Kirsten Foster, Daniel Galera, Tally Garner, Claire Gatzen, Sam Greenwood, Dominic Gribben, Sophie Harris, Aleksandar Hemon, Kazuo Ishiguro, Susan Kamil, Trish Kerr of Kerr’s Bookshop Clonakilty, Jessica Killingley, Martin Kingston (founder of Kilcrannog), Katie Kitamura (sorry I woke Ryu), Hari Kunzru, Seth Marko, Nick Marston, Sally Marvin, Meriз Mekik the Treasure Hunter, Mrs. MacIntosh, Katie McGowan, Caitlin McKenna, Jan Montefiore, Ray Murnane, Neal Murren, Lawrence Norfolk and family, Alasdair Oliver, Hazel Orme, David Peace, Thomas E. Ricks’s Fiasco, Wendell Steavenson’s The Weight of a Mustard Seed, Juan Gabriel Vбsquez, Lana Wachowski, Bing West’s No True Glory, Camilla Young. Apologies to anyone I’ve overlooked—it’s my memory, not ingratitude.
Thanks to Kathleen Holland Designs for crafting Jacko’s labyrinth.
Singled-out thanks to David Ebershoff, Jonny Geller, Doug Stewart, and Carole Welch.
Final thanks to my family.
BY DAVID MITCHELL
THE BONE CLOCKS
THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET
BLACK SWAN GREEN
CLOUD ATLAS
NUMBER 9 DREAM
GHOSTWRITTEN
THE REASON I JUMP (TRANSLATOR, WITH KA YOSHIDA)
About the Author
DAVID MITCHELL is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Timemagazine in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.