MITCHELL, DAVID — Ghostwritten

Sceptre 2014 First edition 436 p. SOFTCOVER: ((Orig. paperback. Neatly read. VERY GOOD) VERY RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER this very first Sceptre edition. Winner of theMail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century.An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ? Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe,Ghostwrittenweaves together a host of characters, their interconnected t ies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.