Ghostwritten by David Mitchell - ISBN: 9780375724503
Paperback
Nine souls, nine countries, one invisible thread: connect or destroy.

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    9 October 2001

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Summary

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas

A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375724503
ISBN-10:0375724508
Author:David Mitchell
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:9 October 2001
Weight:374g
Dimensions:201mm x 133mm x 26mm
Series:Vintage Contemporaries
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Critics Review

“A brave new book for a brave new world—fueled by a brilliant imagination and buoyed by beautifully descriptive writing.”—USA Today “[David Mitchell] has a gift for fiction’s natural pleasures—intricate surprises, insidiously woven narratives, ingenious voices.”—The New York Times Book Review “Elegantly composed, gracefully plotted and full of humor.”—Los Angeles Times “Unlike so many of the chroniclers of the twenty-first-century pastiche—an industry dominated by ad men and feature-writers, not novelists—Mitchell has set out to craft actual characters, not archetypes. The result is a dazzling piece of work.”—The Washington Post “Mitchell deftly sketches each character to such a compelling extent that you become totally immersed… . His nine characters and their random but fateful interactions provide a playful, suspenseful foray into our ever-shrinking world.”—Entertainment Weekly “An intricately assembled Fabergé egg of a novel, full of sly and sometimes beautiful surprises… . In an era in which much literary fiction is characterized by unearned ironies and glib cynicism, it’s hard not to be impressed by the humanism that animates Mitchell’s book.”—New York “Gripping and innovative… . [Ghostwritten serves] to illustrate the strange interconnectivity of the modern world and the improvisatory nature of fate.”—The New York Times “A daring novel, uniquely structured and just as uniquely compelling.”—The Denver Post

About The Author

David Mitchell

David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

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