This book is perfect for readers who love stories that tie disparate characters together in unexpected ways. Mitchell's intricate web of characters and their relationships will keep readers engaged, as will his skillful exploration of themes like cause and effect and the power of storytelling. Overall, Ghostwritten is a must-read for anyone who appreciates well-crafted, thought-provoking fiction.

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• Guardian First Book Award Nominee (1999)
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1999)

David Mitchell's electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters—a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong, an old woman running a tea shack in China, a transmigrating "noncorpum" entity seeking a human host in Mongolia, a gallery-attendant-cum-art-thief in Petersburg, a drummer in London, a female physicist in Ireland, and a radio deejay in New York—hurtle toward a shared destiny of astonishing impact. Like the book's one non-human narrator, Mitchell latches onto his host characters and invades their lives with parasitic precision, making Ghostwritten a sprawling and brilliant literary relief map of the modern world.

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