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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.

David Mitchell曾被雜誌評為英國最佳青年小說家的，《Number9dream》是他的第二本小說。

故事場景在日本，在鄉下長大的主角Eiji Miyake在他二十歲生日的時候，他決定離開鄉下，來到繁華的東京，尋找他從未見過的父親。

《Number9dream》讓我們跟隨著Eiji 的腳步，一訪憤怒的城市的底層社會，內容中夾雜著Eiji自己夢境、敘述與記憶，透過日記的體例與母親的手稿等多種文體讓這本《Number9dream》展現多面向的效果。

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