- Fiction, general, Fathers and sons, fiction, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Birthfathers
At age twenty, Eiji goes to Tokyo to search for the wealthy father he's never known. He stumbles upon the hidden power centers of the Japanese underworld and instead of finding his father, finds himself.
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Contemporary, grave and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- David Mitchell
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Random House Trade paperbacks, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781299074057
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David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, *number9dream* (2001) and *Cloud Atlas* (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for *The Guardian*, and translated books about autism from Japanese to English. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(author)" target="blanck">David Mithchell</a> on Wikipedia
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