The debut novel of the modern classic David Mitchell, twice a finalist of the Booker Prize - for "Sleep No. 9" and "Cloud Atlas" (recently filmed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers) It was the "Literary Ghost", with its Mitchellian polyphonicity, that in the blink of an eye brought the young author to the British literary Olympus. These pages intertwine the life of a young sectarian , at the direction of His Providence staged a sarin attack in the Tokyo subway , and beginner saxophonist, who works part-time at a collectible vinyl store, Bank Manager from London , Money laundered by the Russian mafia in Hong Kong , and a veteran of English intelligence, Decided to publish his memoirs , his "literary negro" (part-time leader of a punk band) and hovering over the Mongolian steppes of a disembodied ghost , Women's Physics from the Irish Isles , What the Pentagon is looking for , Thieves of the Hermitage paintings , New York DJ and many others … “One of the best novels I’ve read in a long time. I literally couldn’t get away from the bookand I enjoyed reading it even more.” C. Bayett). The translation is published in a new edition.