"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, you just might find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet yhou by name and invte you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. Every nine years, the house's residents extend an invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside? For those who find out, it's already too late"--
Biografie
David Mitchell, born in 1969, grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, "Ghostwritten". Published in 1999, it was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, "number9dream", was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.
