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Description: Interview by Catherine McWeeney, an excerpt from Ghostwritten and an essay by the author on the influence of Japan on his writing.
David Mitchell (Bold Type Magazine) David Mitchell's debut novel is a relay race across the globe with nine narrators in nine locations unwittingly intersecting space and fate. The stories travel from Okinawa to Tokyo, Hong Kong, a holy mountain in China, Mongolia, St. Petersburg, London, Ireland, and New York before returning to Tokyo in a roll-back-the-clocks moment that bears witness to our leadoff narrator bombing a subway with Sarin nerve gas. In each case, Mitchell has conjured distinct and vivid voices for characters as disparate as a love struck jazz aficionado, a doomed and loutish bond trader, the elderly proprietor of a tea shack and a genius physicist capable of coding impotence into nuclear bombs. With barely a glimmer of the lives they influence, the characters participate in a chain of events that reflect the world as we know it from the headlines, from the
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