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  • MediaDB / «The Hungry House" by David Mitchell: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 2017 / For the first time in Russian - the latest novel by the renowned David Mitchell, two-time Booker Prize finalist, author of such intellectual bestsellers as "Dream No. 9", " Cloud Atlas" (recently filmed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers) and many others. Stephen King called The Hungry House "a rare, magnificent thing," and Anthony Doerr called it "the Dracula of the new millennium." The Hungry House began with a story that Mitchell began tweeting on the eve of Halloween; a story adjacent to his previous novel “The Bone Clocks” (“Mere Mortals”). So, welcome to Slade Lane. It is not so easy to find in the labyrinth of streets of the outskirts of London. Find a small black iron door in the wall. No handle, no keyhole; but touch the door and it will open. You'll be greeted by a sun-drenched old garden and an imposing mansion - too luxurious for the area, too big for the block. You will be invited to come and you will not be able to refuse…