Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeDemands 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
remarkable novel by a young writer of remarkable talent
The best first novel I have read in ages . . . it beguiles, informs, shocks and captivates
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
Fabulously atmospheric and wryly perceptive . . . a huge new talent
A
remarkable first novel
Engaging and
engrossingThe most
breathtaking debut I've ever read
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 masterpieceTautly 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 accomplishedFull 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
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
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.