Was hat ein Anhänger eines Apokalypse-Kultes, der ein Attentat auf eine überfüllte Metro ausführt, mit einem Jazz-Fan in Tokio zu schaffen? Warum wirkt sich der finanzielle Ruin eines ausgebrannten Rechtsanwaltes auf eine Frau aus, die auf einem heiligen Berg mit einem Baum spricht? Wie hängen ein Gangster aus der Mongolei, ein vergessener englischer Spion in Petersburg, ein Ghostwriter und ein pessimistischer New Yorker DJ zusammen? In Mitchells Roman geschieht keine Handlung der skurrilen Figuren ohne dass sie Auswirkungen auf die anderen hätte.

Zusatztext Fabulously atmospheric and wryly perceptive . . . a huge new talent. Informationen zum Autor David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten , number9dream , Cloud Atlas , Black Swan Green , The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet , The Bone Clocks , Slade House and Utopia Avenue . He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8 , and the movie Matrix: Resurrections . In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight . He lives in Ireland. Klappentext An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ? Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect. A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/ John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Zusammenfassung Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

Fabulously atmospheric and wryly perceptive . . . a huge new talent.

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Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize**

Autorentext

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.

He lives in Ireland.

Klappentext

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?

Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect. A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century.

Zusammenfassung
Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize