Utopia Avenue

The latest novel by contemporary classic David Mitchell, a two-time finalist for the Booker Prize, author of such intellectual bestsellers as «Number9dream», «Cloud Atlas» (adapted by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers), «Bone Clocks», «The Bone Clocks» and others. And although «Utopia Avenue» seems limited in time and space — «swinging London», the legendary «Chelsea Hotel» in New York, San Francisco at the end of the «Summer of Love», — Mitchell again constructs «a grand project, magnificently executed and deeply humanistic, establishing connections between Japan in the Edo period and a distant apocalyptic future» (Los Angeles Times). Before us is «a vivid, evocative and stirring portrait of an era when it was believed that the future belonged to youth and music. And at the same time — an aching sadness about the fleeting nature of this idealism» (Spectator). It would seem that only chance or the whim of a producer brought together blues bassist Dean Moss, expelled from the band «The Battleship Potemkin», virtuoso guitarist Jasper de Zutt, from whose mind the wicked spirit known to him since childhood as Tuk-Tuk breaks free, pianist Elf Holloway from the folk duo «Fletcher and Holloway» and jazz drummer Griff Griffin — but in its short history, «Utopia Avenue» has left an indelible mark in the memory and hearts of an entire generation… «A wonderful book! I couldn't put it down for two days...» (Brian Eno)