Number9dream

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Synopsis

As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams, memories and reality collide then diverge as Eiji is caught up in a feverish succession of encounters by turn bizarre, hilarious and shockingly dangerous. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp...

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Published
29/09/2001

Publisher
Sceptre

ISBN
9780340747971

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'Even more dazzling than GHOSTWRITTEN' -- Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday 'I haven't enjoyed a novel so much in ages; wild, bristling with strangeness' -- Independent Books of the Year 'Exceptional ... more than a surreal detective story or coming-of-age novel, more than a portrait of Tokyo or stream of adolescent consciousness, it is unique: clever, unusual, gripping and beautifully written' -- Literary Review 'Resounds to the same marvellous chatter of voices that marked out GHOSTWRITTEN, his outstanding first novel' -- Observer 'Spellbinding' -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year 'A delirious mix of thriller, tragedy, fantasy, video games and a portrait of uneasy modern Japan ... A deserving Booker nominee.' -- Guardian 'Wildly inventive' -- Sunday Times 'Captures aspects of modern Japan with a compelling authenticity and beauty' -- Daily Telegraph

About the author

David Mitchell

David Mitchell's first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. NUMBER9DREAM, his second, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003 he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his third novel, CLOUD ATLAS, was shortlisted for 6 awards including the Man Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Best Literary Fiction and the South Bank Show Literature Prize. He lives in Ireland with his wife and daughter.