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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.

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

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.

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.

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An astonishing debut. Independent

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Mitchell, David

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 and Slade House. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer´s entire body of work.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from the Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy´s Voice from the Silence of Autism and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man´s Voice from the Silence of Autism.

He lives with his wife and their two children in Ireland.
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