Resena: David Mitchell's many admirers, as well as his many critics, may be surprised by the structure he has chosen for his new novel.

His last book, the award-winning and best-selling Cloud Atlas, consisted of six tales from the past, present and future, each wrapped around the next like a Russian doll.

2001 's Number9Dream - which, like Cloud Atlas, was nominated for the (Man) Booker Prize - revelled in dreamlike diversions of incident and tone, breaking off at intervals to imitate movies, computer games and, at one point, the voice of a Japanese submariner from the Second World War. Ghostwritten, Mitchell's debut from 1999, contained 10 loosely-connected stories which took the reader from Tokyo to London by way of New York, St Petersburg and Mongolia.

However, with Black Swan Green, Mitchell has reined in his formal trickery, confining himself to the one playful touch of producing 13 chapters that cover 13 months in the life of a 13-year-old boy. In a straightforward manner, Black Swan Green details a year in the life of Jason Taylor, a fairly unremarkable teenager and aspiring poet growing up in a village in Worcestershire in 1982, dealing with school bullies, rowing parents and an annoying big sister about to escape to university.

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Categoría: Lengua y Literatura, Narrativa

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