Number9dream, English edition
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
(Sprache: Englisch)
Eiji Miyakes sucht in einer wirbelnden japanischen Grossstadt nach seinem unbekannten Vater. Doch mit 18 Jahren und John Lennon als einzigem Vertrauten ist die Stadt ein verwirrender Ort. Seine achtwöchige Suche führt ihn in das Zwielicht zwischen Stadt und...
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Eiji Miyakes sucht in einer wirbelnden japanischen Grossstadt nach seinem unbekannten Vater. Doch mit 18 Jahren und John Lennon als einzigem Vertrauten ist die Stadt ein verwirrender Ort. Seine achtwöchige Suche führt ihn in das Zwielicht zwischen Stadt und Gedanken, wo ein polnischer Kunstfilm nicht weniger real ist als die Kaffeetasse vor ihm.
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The second novel from the author of "Ghostwritten" is set in Japan, and is about a young man's search for the father he has never met. "Gripping and beautifully written" "Literary Review". Originally due to be published in November 2001, publication was held off until April 2002 after the book's appearance on the Booker shortlist. *Also appeared in November/December Buyer's Notes*
Autoren-Porträt von David Mitchell
David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.
He lives in Ireland.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Mitchell
- 2002, 2. Aufl., 432 Seiten, Masse: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sceptre
- ISBN-10: 0340747978
- ISBN-13: 9780340747971
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.04.2002
Sprache:
Englisch
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Even more dazzling than GHOSTWRITTEN -- Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday If anything more amazing than his debut, GHOSTWRITTEN, this Booker-shortlisted fantasia confirms the Hiroshima-based Mitchell as the most prodigally gifted of young British novelists ... an extraordinary literary cabaret of dreams, visions and pastiches, from video-game rides and gangster rumbles to suicide submariners. Endlessly ingenious and hugely enjoyable - but oddly moving as well. A rich showcase for 21st-century fiction. -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent I haven't enjoyed a novel so much in ages; wild, bristling with strangeness -- Independent Books of the Year A clever, contemporary reworking of classic videogame / quest themes ... This videogame is made not of zeros and ones, however, but of dream fragments and poetry ... the beautiful, snake-like narrative twists and tangles around leitmotifs borrowed from action films, manga, anime, SF, fantasy, old detective novels, mob stories, coming-of-age romances, cyberpunk, epic quests and war stories ... Mitchell rolls around in implausibility, takes some incredible literary liberties, and - yes - gets away with it. -- Scarlett Thomas, Independent Exceptional ... more than a surreal detective story or coming-of-age novel, more than a portrait of Tokyo or stream of adolescent consciousness, it is unique: clever, unusual, gripping and beautifully written -- Literary Review It's a measure of the precocity of David Mitchell's talent that this novel, the author's second book, is nearly a rare example of a satisfying "anti-novel". This experimentation with narrative form is usually reserved for authors with comfortably established book sales and secure reputations. It is told dexterously ... The book progresses through quick changes of style and texture. This fixes one's attention on the delights of Mitchell's prose. Almost without realising it, you find that you have fallen for Eiji, and that his plight has registered at a deep level. -- Paul Tebbs,
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Daily Telegraph Resounds to the same marvellous chatter of voices that marked out GHOSTWRITTEN, his outstanding first novel -- Observer David Mitchell's second novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and it's not hard to see why. The narrative has a langorous, dream-like quality - the result of being structured around Eiji's fantasies. Mitchell writes well in a range of different moods and styles: funny, poignant, humdrum, violent. Most strikingly of all, he depicts Tokyo as a bewildering labyrinth, which provides the perfect backdrop to the desultory wanderings of Eiji's mind. -- Observer Spellbinding -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year A delirious mix of thriller, tragedy, fantasy, video games and a portrait of uneasy modern Japan ... A deserving Booker nominee. -- Guardian Wildly inventive -- Sunday Times Captures aspects of modern Japan with a compelling authenticity and beauty -- Daily Telegraph
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