Book 4 - David Mitchell - Ghostwritten

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Another book finished an hour ago from the fifty book challenge and,strangely, the second one by David Mitchell, although he wrote this before Cloud Atlas. There is a very Asian feel to this novel.

For example, what do a Japanese cultist; a teenager working in a Japanese jazz music shop; a financier in Hong Kong; the owner of a Chinese tea shop; a backpacking Dane; a Russian art gallery attendant; a British ghost-writer/musician; an Irish physicist and an American radio presenter have in common? More than you might think as Mitchell weaves their lives and connections into this novel in nine parts.

This could be seen as a set of interconnected short stories but in Mitchell's hands the sum is more than the parts. History, contemporary, mystery, futuristic - this book contains many genres but as a whole it flows and the connections come together to make this is into an amazing début novel. A very enjoyable read.