description: 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.1999 David Mitchell; (P)2013 WF Howes
language: English
title: GHOSTWRITTEN.
titlecomplete: GHOSTWRITTEN.
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary, British Literature, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Literature, Short Stories, Novels
ratings_count: 30419
places: New York City, New York, St. Petersburg, China, Ireland, London, England, Mongolia, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Okinawa
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
publisher: RANDOM HOUSE.