number9dream
Synopsis
number9dream is a Far Eastern, detective/family chronicle, road-movie-of-the-mind. The summer is almost over and Eiji Miyake, his twentieth birthday looming, arrives in Tokyo with a mission – to find the father he has never met. number9dream follows Eiji on a search that leads through the seething city’s underworld, lost property offices, video arcades and his own imaginings, dreams, mother’s letters and memories. His journeys lead him back to the rainy island of Yakshima, where everything that matters to Eiji began and ended.
Author Biography
David Mitchell was born in Southport in January, 1969. His first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under 35 and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His third novel Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In 2003 he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. David Mitchell now lives in Ireland.
