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- Sceptre
- Sceptre
- Hodder & Stoughton
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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense, Fantasy
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jan 6, 2002 | 9780340747971 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781529338836 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
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- Audiobook Mar 8, 2007 | 9781844564750 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback Jan 6, 2002 | 9780340747971 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781529338836 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 2, 2008 | 9781844568840 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 8, 2007 | 9781844564750 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Jan 6, 2002 | 9780340747971 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781529338836 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 2, 2008 | 9781844568840 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 8, 2007 | 9781844564750 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Jan 6, 2002 | 9780340747971 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781529338836 | RRP $44.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Oct 2, 2008 | 9781844568840 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Mar 8, 2007 | 9781844564750 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
Shortlisted for the Booker and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001
The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of GHOSTWRITTEN and CLOUD ATLAS.
As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.
Praise for number9dream: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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If anything more amazing than his debut, Ghostwritten, this Booker-shortlisted fantasia confirms the Hiroshima-based Mitchell as the most prodigally gifted of young British novelists . . . an extraordinary literary cabaret of dreams, visions and pastiches, from video-game rides and gangster rumbles to suicide submariners. Endlessly ingenious and hugely enjoyable - but oddly moving as well. A rich showcase for 21st-century fiction. - Independent
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David Mitchell's second novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and it's not hard to see why. The narrative has a langorous, dream-like quality - the result of being structured around Eiji's fantasies. Mitchell writes well in a range of different moods and styles: funny, poignant, humdrum, violent. Most strikingly of all, he depicts Tokyo as a bewildering labyrinth, which provides the perfect backdrop to the desultory wanderings of Eiji's mind. - Observer
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It's a measure of the precocity of David Mitchell's talent that this novel, the author's second book, is nearly a rare example of a satisfying "anti-novel". This experimentation with narrative form is usually reserved for authors with comfortably established book sales and secure reputations. It is told dexterously . . . The book progresses through quick changes of style and texture. This fixes one's attention on the delights of Mitchell's prose. Almost without realising it, you find that you have fallen for Eiji, and that his plight has registered at a deep level. - Daily Telegraph
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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
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A delirious mix of thriller, tragedy, fantasy, video games and a portrait of uneasy modern Japan . . . A deserving Booker nominee. - Guardian
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I haven't enjoyed a novel so much in ages; wild, bristling with strangeness - Independent Books of the Year
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David Mitchell
David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.
In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.
He lives in Ireland.
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