Number9dream: a novel
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
c2001
Edition:
1st U.S. ed
Language:
English
Description
From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten , with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, Number9Dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister' s death and his mother' s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses-- through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck-- a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father' s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name.
Subjects
Subjects
Bildungsromans
Birthfathers
Birthfathers -- Fiction
Children of prostitutes
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk -- Fiction
Fathers and sons
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Sagas
Sagas -- Fiction
Science fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Young men
Young men -- Fiction
Birthfathers
Birthfathers -- Fiction
Children of prostitutes
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk -- Fiction
Fathers and sons
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Sagas
Sagas -- Fiction
Science fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Young men
Young men -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9780375507267
9781470358457
9781470358457
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Bildungsromans
Birthfathers -- Fiction
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction
Cyberpunk -- Fiction
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Sagas -- Fiction
Science fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Young men -- Fiction
Birthfathers -- Fiction
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction
Cyberpunk -- Fiction
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Sagas -- Fiction
Science fiction
Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
Young men -- Fiction
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Birthfathers
Children of prostitutes
Cyberpunk
Fathers and sons
Literature
Sagas
Young men
Children of prostitutes
Cyberpunk
Fathers and sons
Literature
Sagas
Young men
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