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The tales of nine very different characters in nine different cities that "don't end, [but] scarily morph and transmute into each other as we travel through them in the company of a crazed cult member, a corrupt lawyer, a Tokyo jazz aficionado, an art thief, a New York late-night DJ."--Booklist.
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Contemporary, grave, open-ended and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- David Mitchell
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 436
- Publisher
- Random House, Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375724503
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“WHO WAS BLOWING on the nape of my neck.”
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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