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Present Idea No. 20: Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

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Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten

Description:

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.

BookieMonster says:

This book is one of my top ten books of all time. All time. It’s that good. Mitchell is one of the best writers of the turn of our century, virtuoso, often crazy, but he has the talent to carry it off in spectacular ways.

Buy Ghostwritten from BookieMonster for $18.95!

(Yes ANOTHER sub-$20 paperback from us – we are great value!)

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Comments (3)

I LOVE David Mitchell! And not just because my husband’s name is David Mitchell. :) Black Swan Green is my favourite of his.

Is it really? That is totally awesome! I wonder if I can get Mr Monster to change his name to Kazuo Ishiguro? Hmmm… :D

I think his writing is always wonderful – I think my favourite is Number9Dream, even though it’s totally crazy.
http://www.bookiemonster.co.nz/2009/09/number9dream-by-david-mitchell/

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