Number9Dream

As Eiji Miyake’s twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission – to locate the father he has never met. So begins a search that takes him into the seething city’s underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades, and on a journey that zigzags from reality to the realm of dreams. But until Eiji has fallen in love and exorcised his childhood demons, the belonging he craves will remain, tantalizingly, just beyond his grasp.

Publisher: Sceptre

ISBN: 9780340747971

Publication year: 2014

Format: Softcover

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize;

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

«number9dream, with its propulsive energy, its Joycean eruption of language and playfulness, represents further confirmation that David Mitchell should be counted among the top young novelists working today . . . He writes like a dream, the kind you don’t want to end» – San Francisco Chronicle

«A delirious mix of thriller, tragedy, fantasy, video games and a portrait of uneasy modern Japan» – Guardian

«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