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Number9Dream by David Mitchell - 3.5* - My Review

This book is a surrealist tale of Eiji Miyake, a twenty-year-old young man from the rural island of Yakushima, who moves to Tokyo to find his father. Eiji has never known his father who had abandoned the family years ago. It is set in a near-future technologically advanced society. It blends mystery, adventure, and surrealism. Eiji encounters a diverse set of characters and becomes entangled in a series of bizarre and often dangerous events. Themes include identity, family, and guilt. It is written in a non-linear fashion. Dream sequences are interwoven with Eiji’s reality, and it is not always clear which is which. It is an intricately crafted complex story. There is humor and extreme violence. It contains multiple Beatle references scattered throughout the narrative. David Mitchell is one of my favorite authors, and I have loved several of his novels (e.g., Ghostwritten, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob deZoet, and Cloud Atlas). This one is a little too far “out there” for me. I enjoyed it but not as much as some of his others.

PBT BWF Extra letter M and tagged "crime" x8:
Note: The Yakuza is major part of the story, which explains the "crime" tagging.
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