Number 9 Dream - David Mitchell

I started reading 'number9dream' on New Year's Eve and only just recently finished it. It is quite a long book, but at the same time my reading pace has been stuttered for a while. The book however is a very enjoyable and impressionable read indeed! I picked it up from Amazon at a reduction of 60% in the January sales (£10 to £4!), and also having been curious about the book it was another variable that convinced me into rightly making the purchase. 'number9dream' is the second novel by the early thirties writer currently teaching in Hiroshima, and has been widely acclaimed by many, even more so than his debut novel ...  Read the complete review

David Mitchell lives, teaches English, and has set his first two novels in Japan. His debut (Ghostwritten) received much critical acclaim (for more info check out nomie's review here on dooyoo). Living and working in Japan does enable him to write about Japan the place and use it as a setting for his novels, but there's not much Japaneseness about his characters. They are Japanese people as seen from the outside by an Englishman; but it doesn't really matter though because his themes are international. This is the age-old story of a young man's quest to find his roots, colliding with an ultra-modern world. Eiji Miyake is 7290 days old ...  Read the complete review