![]() ![]() The literary journey, which begins in Tokyo and ends in New York, is, furthermore, full of literary, philosophical and historical references. ![]() The plots are interwoven to an extent that the connections between the nine heroes of the story, who live all over the world, become visible only successively and in a rather subtle way. The book reveals Mitchell’s love for complex, multi-perspective narrative structures. Byatt were impressed, too, and praised the »Novel in Nine Parts« as one of the best debuts of the recent past. Mitchell’s first novel »Ghostwritten« (1999) met the enthusiastic acclaim of the critics and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and other awards. He spent one year in Catania before he moved to Hiroshima, where he lived with his wife for eight years and taught English at university there, something he had already done in Sicily. He studied English and American Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury and graduated with a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature and Linguistics. David Mitchell was born in Southport, Lancaster, in 1969, and grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire. ![]()
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