Ghostwritten - Hardcover

Mitchell, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679463046 ISBN 13: 9780679463047

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 2000

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Book by Mitchell David

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The lives of nine total strangers from nine different countries become intertwined in a strange series of circumstances. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

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tendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space?
        A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions--to creation and to destruction. In the end,

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• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679463046
• ISBN 13: 9780679463047
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448