Number9dream
by David, Mitchell
number9dream is the second novel by English author David Mitchell. Set in Japan, it narrates the search of 19-year-old Eiji Miyake for his father, whom he never met. Told in the first person by Eiji, it is a coming of age/perception story that breaks convention by juxtaposing Eiji Miyake’s actual journey toward identity and understanding with his imaginative journey.
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On Dec 6, 2015, CloggieDownunder said
“Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk amid the still-are” number9dream is the second novel by British author, David Mitchell. Nineteen-year-old Eiji Miyake arrives in Tokyo looking for his father, a man he has never met, a man whose name he does not even know. He has a letter from a lawyer warning him not to try to find his father, so his first move is to stake out the lawyer’s office from a café opposite, the Jupiter Café, where works a girl with the most beautiful neck in the world. So begins another foray into the world of David Mitchell, one that takes the reader on an interesting (and occasionally, slightly bizarre) journey. As Eiji moves from the café to the Lost Property Office of Ueno station to a game parlour to an unfinished development on reclaimed land to a safe house to a video shop to a pizza shop to a mountain retreat, he also moves in and out of danger and encounters quite a cast of (often quirky) individuals. Claude Debussy and John Lennon play significant roles, as do the Yakuza organised crime syndicate, an overabundance of cigarettes, some seriously weird pizza recipes, a cat, an absent mother and a dead twin sister. Mitchell manages to seamlessly include the journal of a WW2 Kaiten pilot, scenes from a surreal black and white movie, a fantastic tale starring a stuttering goatwriter, a hen and a Pithecanthropus, an account of sex slavery and organ theft, and, of course, quite a few dreams. The number nine and its elements, unsurprisingly, feature heavily but in quite a subtle way. As with all of Mitchell’s novels, there are characters who appear in earlier and later books. Mitchell’s characters, for all their oddities, are appealing; their dialogue and Eiji’s inner monologue provide plenty of humour; and they manage to express some insightful observations: “Weird. All these people like my mother paying counsellors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all these people like me paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality” and “Maybe the truest difference between people is exactly this: how they see why they are here” also “Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it”. The (perhaps) abrupt ending that leaves things very much “up in the air” may not be to every reader’s taste, but the characters, plot and prose more than compensate, especially the delightful feast of rhyme, alliteration and incredibly clever wordplay of the goatwriter piece. An excellent read.
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Number9Dream [Number 9 Dream]
by Mitchell, David
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New York: Random House, 2003. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. Reprint. Light crease on front cover. 2003 Trade Paperback. Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energyâan intoxicating ride through Tokyo's dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. Item Price
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Random House (NY), February 2002. First American. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. A young dreamer from remote rural Japan, Eiji Miyake, finds himself thrust out and on his own following his sister's death and his mother's breakdown. He comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father he never knew, and promptly trips over and crosses the hidden power… Read more about this item Item Price
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NUMBER9DREAM.
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Norman, OK:: Random House,, (2002). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) Mitchell's second novel, set in Tokyo's seething underworld - "As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to find the father he has never met." Shortlisted for the Booker… Read more about this item Item Price
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Number9Dream
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