Ghostwritten
Synopsis
David Mitchell's electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters-a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York-hurtle toward a shared destiny of astonishing impact. Like the book's one non-human narrator, Mitchell latches onto his host characters and invades their lives with parasitic precision, making Ghostwritten a sprawling and brilliant literary relief map of the modern world.
- Copyright:
- 1999 David Mitchell
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307426024
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books
- Date of Addition:
- 2021-05-12T19:46:40Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.