You’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump . Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again. In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. “It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship.” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife, KA Yoshida, so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends, the wider autism community, and beyond. Naoki’s book, in its beauty, truthfulness, and simplicity, is a gift to be shared. Advance praise for The Reason I Jump “ The Reason I Jump is awise, beautiful, intimate and courageous explanation of autism as it is lived every day by one remarkable boy. Naoki Higashida takes us ‘behind the mirror’—his testimony should be read by parents, teachers, siblings, friends, and anybody who knows and loves an autistic person. I only wish I’d had this book to defend myself when I was Naoki’s age.” —Tim Page, author of Parallel Play and professor of journalism and music at the University of Southern California

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell has become one of the leading literary voices of his generation. His hypnotic new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit—it is fiction at its most spellbinding and memorable. Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a kaleidoscopic novel that begs to be taken apart and put back together by a writer The Washington Post calls “the novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction.”

一个名叫EijiMiyake的日本年轻人在母亲和姐妹相继亡故后，从乡下来到繁华都市东京，寻找当年抛弃家庭的父亲。在此过程中，他遇到了种种困难，甚至被卷入了东京黑手党的阴谋中。这座庞大的城市令他迷惑恐惧，而黑势力似乎无处不在，厄运总是追随著他。抽著烟，他游荡在东京的大街小巷，试图发现他父亲的生活的真相，解开心中的疑惑。他的思绪在现实和梦想间穿行，读者渐渐也迷失了真实世界和梦想世界的界限，但同时更加深了对心理世界的了解。这部作品进入2002年布克奖的决选名单，再次展现了大卫·米歇尔自如调动不同文体和戏剧化运用文学手段的能力。

一個穿越古今未來一千年的靈魂，六趟奇異的生命旅程，以及一種不變的宿命。 如果馬奎斯、卡爾維諾、村上春樹合寫一部小說，大概就會是這本吧！ 最能挑戰閱讀想像的小說，小說上癮者必讀！ 榮獲英國國家圖書獎最佳小說獎、理查與茱蒂讀書俱樂部年度選書 入圍曼布克獎、星雲獎、克拉克獎，風靡英美的百萬暢銷小說 電影拍攝確定！《香水》導演與《駭客任務》製片首度攜手合作年度鉅片 被熱帶寄生蟲啃蝕大腦的太平洋船客、寄生在音樂大師羽翼下的年輕作曲家、一心揭發建商弊案的八卦雜誌記者、出版暢銷書後開始被黑道追殺的出版商、在餐館努力工作而升等為人類的複製人女孩、後末日時代殘餘文明的小島牧羊男孩——在時間的長廊裡，《雲圖》的敘事者可以聽見彼此回響的跫音，因而改變了自己的命運。 《雲圖》是科幻，也是冒險，有壯旅，也有社會議題，有患難與共的愛情，也有盪氣迴腸的情義，有東方的輪迴轉世，也有西方的哲思，談文明與文化，也有快節奏的緊張懸疑情節，時間跨越了過去、現在、未來，地點遍布在世界各角落。作者為串聯故事所設計的伏筆與回響，增加了故事的豐富度，也讓《雲圖》成為一本野心勃勃的小說。大衛．米契爾的想像力與寫作格局，對小說讀者來說是枚驚世駭俗的震撼彈，打破所有人對既有小說的所有認知與想像，讓人大開眼界，為之瘋狂！ 大衛．米契爾是位有遠見的後現代作家，也是善於掌握風格與類型的大師，他放膽結合了張力十足的探險故事、熱愛謎題的納博科夫式風格、對角色的敏銳洞察力，以及傳承自安伯托．艾可與菲立普．狄克對深刻的哲學與科學省思的偏好。他抹去了語言、類型、時間的界限，進而討論「人性冀求權力的企圖心到底有多危險」以及「它最終會將我們帶往何方」，一連串的反思發人深省。這部原創性十足小說的誕生，為二十一世紀的小說模式開啟了新潮流與新風貌。

《Cloud Atlas》（《云图》，2004）是大卫.米切尔的第三部小说。这本书由六段故事构成，从1840年一位美国人从悉尼旅行到旧金山的日记、二十世纪三十年代初居住在比利时的年轻作曲家、1975年卷入加利福尼亚灾难的年轻记者、当今伦敦出版回忆录的黑道、1984年韩国发生的故事与一个老人叙述当时在夏威夷的青春自语为终结。 《Cloud Atlas》入围2004年布克奖（Man Booker Prize）。