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Ghostwritten
- Author
- David Mitchell
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 8 October 2020
- Run Time
- 16 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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
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Demands to be read and re-read . . . an astonishing debut
Independent
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One of the best first novels I've read in a long time . . . I couldn't put it down
Mail on Sunday
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A remarkable novel by a young writer of remarkable talent
Observer
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The best first novel I have read in ages . . . it beguiles, informs, shocks and captivates
Daily Telegraph
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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
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Fabulously atmospheric and wryly perceptive . . . a huge new talent
Guardian
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A remarkable first novel
Time Out
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Engaging and engrossing
Daily Mail
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The most breathtaking debut I've ever read
Daily Express
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Gripping and innovative
New York Times
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An extraordinarily assured novel of global reach and millennial ambition
Esquire
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This first novel displays a cool and intelligent virtuosity and an amazingly copious imagination
Daily Telegraph
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A brilliantly constructed novel which you must read for yourself . . . truly a masterpiece
Vector
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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
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Astonishingly accomplished
The Times
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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
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A dazzling piece of work
Washington Post
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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
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Mitchell deftly sketches each character to such a compelling extent that you become totally immersed
Entertainment Weekly
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Details
- Author
- David Mitchell
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 16 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529338829
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fantasy, Science fiction
Synopsis
**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
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