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Ghostwritten

The extraordinary first novel from the author of Cloud Atlas

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Ghostwritten

By: David Mitchell
Narrated by: Daniel York Loh, Eugenia Low, Grainne Gillis, Lucy Paterson, Sadeo Ueda, Simon Slater, Thomas Judd, Tina Chiang
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 **Pre-order UTOPIA AVENUE, the spectacular new novel from David Mitchell.**


Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century.

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?

Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd©1999 David Mitchell Fantasy Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Fiction

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Critic reviews

Demands to be read and re-read . . . an astonishing debut
One of the best first novels I've read in a long time . . . I couldn't put it down (A. S. Byatt)
A remarkable novel by a young writer of remarkable talent
The best first novel I have read in ages . . . it beguiles, informs, shocks and captivates (William Boyd)
Mitchell plays one extraordinary riff after another . . . If you want to know what the distinctive literature of the 21st century will look like, begin here (Boyd Tonkin)
Fabulously atmospheric and wryly perceptive . . . a huge new talent
A remarkable first novel
Engaging and engrossing
The most breathtaking debut I've ever read (Sue Perkins)
Gripping and innovative
An extraordinarily assured novel of global reach and millennial ambition
This first novel displays a cool and intelligent virtuosity and an amazingly copious imagination
A brilliantly constructed novel which you must read for yourself . . . truly a masterpiece (Books of the Year)
Tautly plotted and with the page-turning qualities of a thriller, Ghostwritten is an intoxicating read and is in danger of giving the post-modern novel a good name
Astonishingly accomplished
Full of sly and sometimes beautiful surprises . . . worth a dozen of the morally anorexic first novels that regularly come down the pipe. Ghostwritten may conclude with the end of the world, but I, for one, am hoping for more (Daniel Mendelsohn)
A dazzling piece of work
Elegantly composed, gracefully plotted and full of humour . . . It recalls Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in its emotional scope and its ambitions. Like the great Russians, Mitchell makes us feel that more is at stake than individual lives, although it's by individual lives that pain and loss are measured
Mitchell deftly sketches each character to such a compelling extent that you become totally immersed
All stars
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I can't understand the reviews saying the performances were breathy and hard to understand - were we listening to the same recording?? I didn't notice any issues like that at all, all very clear and well interpreted. A couple of characters didn't quite have the voice they have in my head (Neal Brose and Marco, mainly) but they were still believable as their characters and made for a brilliant audiobook.

Great performance of my favourite book!

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I love this book and delighted to have the unabridged version on Audible. The production however is cheap! Breathy, noisy performances with some downright awful accents.
My advice is re-record this book with the voice artists from the first book.

Poor Performance great story

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This is a fantastic first novel from David Mitchell. Like a lot of people probably I started with Cloud Atlas and have been picking up others here and there, and it's really impressive to see how well some of the ideas I knew from his later novels in this debut. I like that each main character had their own narrator, but some performances and stories are better than others. This story is a slow burn and things don't really come together until very late, but the journey is worth it if you enjoyed Cloud Atlas, or generally enjoy short story compilations or stories that feature different weaving narratives.

Slow burn but well worth it

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London was my favourite. But now I’m left with more questions.
His books must end up as standard school texts. Sorry kids!

I hear a bike pump

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As with David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, this story is made up of lots of different narratives, each one in a unique voice.. and so the producers of the audiobook have used different performers for each section.. and just like Cloud Atlas this little touch does wonders, literally giving each character their own voice!
The novel is brilliantly written, has a bit of everything in it.. loved every story equally. Can’t recommend enough

David Mitchell and the producers have done it again!

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