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A gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia. What is the common thread of coincidence or destiny that connects the lives of these nine souls in nine far-flung countries, stretching across the globe from east to west? What pattern do their linked fates form through time and space?

A writer of pyrotechnic virtuosity and profound compassion, a mind to which nothing human is alien, David Mitchell spins genres, cultures, and ideas like gossamer threads around and through these nine linked stories. Many forces bind these lives, but at root all involve the same universal longing for connection and transcendence, an axis of commonality that leads in two directions--to creation and to destruction. In the end, as lives converge with a fearful symmetry, Ghostwritten comes full circle, to a point at which a familiar idea--that whether the planet is vast or small is merely a matter of perspective--strikes home with the force of a new revelation. It marks the debut of a writer of astonishing gifts.

David Mitchell曾在日本教了八年的英文,因此他的許多小說的場景都是以日本當地的風土人情為創作的題材,如《Number9dream》的主角就是叫Eiji Miyake的20歲日本男孩到東京尋找未曾謀面的父親的故事。《Ghostwritten》的故事中也有以日本東京與沖繩為主,更跨越了香港、倫敦等九個地方。

David Mitchell在本書中提出了什麼是真實的？什麼是虛無的？透過九個地方，九個不同國情的人物，為我們帶來不同時空，卻又彼此相應的故事。

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