The debut novel by modern classic David Mitchell, twice a finalist for the Booker Prize - for The Dream No. 9 and for Cloud Atlas (recently filmed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers). It was “The Literary Ghost,” with its signature Mitchellian polyphony, that instantly elevated the young author to the British literary Olympus. These pages intertwine the life paths of a young sectarian who, at the behest of His Seer, staged a sarin attack on the Tokyo subway, and an aspiring saxophonist who works part-time in a collectible vinyl store, a bank manager from London who launders money from the Russian mafia in Hong Kong, and a veteran of British intelligence who decided to publish his memories, his “literary Negro” (who also happens to be the leader of a punk band) and the ethereal ghost hovering over the Mongolian steppes, a female physicist from an Irish island who is being hunted by the Pentagon, the thieves of Hermitage paintings, a New York DJ and many, many others … “One of the best novels I've read in a long time. <…> I literally could not tear myself away from the book - and I got even more pleasure when re-reading” (A. S. Byatt). The translation is published in a new edition.