Ghostwritten - Couverture souple

Mitchell, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340769726 ISBN 13 : 9780340769720

Editeur : Sceptre, 2000

Synopsis

Acult member carries out a gas attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz buff in downtown Tokyo? A woman on a holy mountain talks to a tree - and the tree talks back, unaware of the effect which the financial irregularities of a burnt-out lawyer will have on her life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340769726
• ISBN 13: 9780340769720
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible