Ghostwritten: A Novel (Signed First Edition)

David Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0340739746 / ISBN 13: 9780340739747

Published by Sceptre, New York, 1999

About this Item

Sceptre, New York, 1999. Trade paperback original. First U.K. edition (the true first edition). First printing, with full number line to 1. A fine copy. A copy with clean text. Note: Prior owner's neat gift inscription on front endpaper. A couple foxing spots on side edge. A couple light creases on spine (as pictured). This copy has been SIGNED by Mitchell on the title page (as pictured). A beautiful copy of Mitchell's debut novels. Fiction-M.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3926

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghostwritten: A Novel (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Sceptre, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340739746
• ISBN 13: 9780340739747
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Novels, Signed
  • Signed First U.K. Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

A magnificent achievement and an engrossing experience, David Mitchell's first novel announced the arrival of one of the most exciting writers of the twenty-first century.

An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what links him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? Or to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?

Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.

About the Author

Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten. Published in 1999, it was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for six awards including the Man Booker Prize, and adapted for film in 2012. It was followed by Black Swan Green, shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Both were also longlisted for the Booker.

In 2013, The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida was published in a translation from the Japanese by David Mitchell and KA Yoshida. It was an immediate bestseller in the UK and later in the US as well.