num_pages: 436
description: 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.
language: English
title: Ghostwritten
titlecomplete: Ghostwritten
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Short Stories, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 30426
places: Ireland, Mongolia, Tokyo, New York City, New York, St. Petersburg, Hong Kong, China, London, England, Okinawa
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
publisher: Sceptre