Literary Ghost

The debut novel of contemporary classic David Mitchell, a two-time finalist for the Booker Prize — for «Sleep No. 9» and «Cloud Atlas» (adapted by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers). It is «Literary Ghost» with its trademark Mitchell polyphony that instantly elevated the young author to the British literary Olympus. On these pages, the life paths of a young sect member, who under the direction of His Providence orchestrated a sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, and a budding saxophonist, who works part-time in a vinyl collectibles store, a bank manager from London laundering Russian mafia money in Hong Kong, and a veteran of British intelligence intending to publish his memoirs, his «literary negro» (simultaneously the leader of a punk band), and an intangible ghost hovering over the Mongolian steppes, a woman physicist from an Irish island who is hunted by the Pentagon, art thieves from the Hermitage, a New York DJ, and many, many others are intertwined.... «One of the best novels I have read in a long time. ?…? I literally couldn't put the book down — and I enjoyed it even more upon rereading» (A. S. Bayett).