As I observed last week, one of the great things about being on holiday is having the time to catch up on your reading—and as you will know from that post I have a nice stack of books to get through. Next up is David Mitchell’s debut novel, Ghostwritten.

I thought I had better start at the beginning since Mitchell has said he’s writing an uber-novel—and the backcover of Ghostwritten does sound intriguing:

“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 a  Mongolian gangster, a woman on a lonely mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ?

Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinities determined by the inescapable forces of cause and effect.”

Which kinda suggests the book could be about anything at all really, although a peek at Good Reads suggests its something of a genre-bender.

Whatever the case,  the best thing to do is start reading and find out more—so I intend to do just that. 😉