Winner of the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize A magnificent achievement & 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 & a late night New York DJset at the fugitive edges of Asia & Europe Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters their interconnected destinies determined by the inescapable forces of cause & effect