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Literary ghost

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Literary ghost
14.99 €
The debut novel by David Mitchell, a modern classicist and two-time Booker Prize finalist for "Dream No. 9" and "Cloud Atlas" (recently adapted by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers). It was The Literary Ghost, with its trademark Mitchellian polyphony, that elevated the young author to the British literary Olympus in no time. In these pages intertwined the life paths of a young sectarian, at the behest of His foresight to organize a sarin attack in the Tokyo subway, and an aspiring saxophonist who moonlights in a collectible vinyl store, a bank manager from London, laundering in Hong Kong money of the Russian mafia, and a veteran of British intelligence, who decides to publish his memoirs, his "literary Negro" (part-time leader of a punk band) and a disembodied ghost hovering over the Mongolian steppes, a female physicist from an Irish island, who is being hunted by the Pentagon, thieves of Hermitage paintings, a New York DJ, and many, many others.... "One of the best novels I've read in a long time. <...> I literally could not tear myself away from the book - and even more pleasure received on rereading" (A. S. Byatt). The translation is published in a new edition.
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