Ghostwritten (Vintage Contemporaries) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Ghostwritten (Vintage Contemporaries) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Ghostwritten (Vintage Contemporaries) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: David Mitchell: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Ghostwritten (Vintage Contemporaries) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• WHO WAS BLOWING on the nape of my neck.