Ghostwritten

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**Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell.**


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.

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Critics Review

Demands to be read and re-read . . . an astonishing debut
Independent
One of the best first novels I've read in a long time . . . I couldn't put it down
Mail on Sunday
A remarkable novel by a young writer of remarkable talent
Observer
The best first novel I have read in ages . . . it beguiles, informs, shocks and captivates
Daily Telegraph
Mitchell plays one extraordinary riff after another . . . If you want to know what the distinctive literature of the 21st century will look like, begin here
Independent
Fabulously atmospheric and wryly perceptive . . . a huge new talent
Guardian
A remarkable first novel
Time Out
Engaging and engrossing
Daily Mail
The most breathtaking debut I've ever read
Daily Express
Gripping and innovative
New York Times
An extraordinarily assured novel of global reach and millennial ambition
Esquire
This first novel displays a cool and intelligent virtuosity and an amazingly copious imagination
Daily Telegraph
A brilliantly constructed novel which you must read for yourself . . . truly a masterpiece
Vector
Tautly plotted and with the page-turning qualities of a thriller, Ghostwritten is an intoxicating read and is in danger of giving the post-modern novel a good name
Irish Times
Astonishingly accomplished
The Times
Full of sly and sometimes beautiful surprises . . . worth a dozen of the morally anorexic first novels that regularly come down the pipe. Ghostwritten may conclude with the end of the world, but I, for one, am hoping for more
New York Magazine
A dazzling piece of work
Washington Post
Elegantly composed, gracefully plotted and full of humour . . . It recalls Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in its emotional scope and its ambitions. Like the great Russians, Mitchell makes us feel that more is at stake than individual lives, although it's by individual lives that pain and loss are measured
Los Angeles Times
Mitchell deftly sketches each character to such a compelling extent that you become totally immersed
Entertainment Weekly

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