num_pages: 418
description: As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.
language: English
title: Number9dream
titlecomplete: Number9dream
characters: Ai Imajo, Yuzu Daimon, Buntaro Ogiso, Eiji Miyake
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, British Literature, Japan, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 25132
places: Tokyo
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Sceptre