number9dream

Proof Copy. 8vo. Pp. [ix], 418. Pictorial wraps.

Signed and dated by Author to title-page.

Shortlisted in 2001 for both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Eiji Miyake arrives in a sprawling Japanese metropolis to track down the father he has never met. Part detective fiction, part coming-of-age story, Mitchell's second novel re-employs the episodic narrative structure of his 1999 debut, Ghostwritten, to navigate Tokyo's netherworlds and the terrains of our collective dreams. Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003.

"Number9Dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today." –San Francisco Chronicle