Utopia avenue review5/13/2023 Utopia Avenue, Mitchell’s latest, is definitely part of the Mitchell-verse, but also tells a fairly self-contained story set in around the music scene of late 1960s London. Characters drift in and out of the different narratives and there is grand, overarching meta-tale that involves a kind of battle between good and evil, sometimes going on in the background and sometimes in the foreground. What regular readers of Mitchell’s works will know is that all of these, and his other novels, are connected. But his works are more diverse than this and include the memoire-like Black Swan Green and the historical (but no less metaphysical) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet. David Mitchell is best known for his time-spanning and globetrotting novels with a metaphysical and speculative edge Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.
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