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Article: A Samurai in Sneakers: English novelist David Mitchell delivers a deft, scary and often funny adventure--about modern Japan.("Number9Dream")
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- Newsweek
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- March 25, 2002
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Byline: Malcolm Jones
So why does a 33-year-old Englishman decide to write a slam-bang adventure novel that's also an intricate literary puzzle about a 20-year-old Japanese man searching for his long-lost father in Tokyo? Frankly, because he can. When you're as gifted as David Mitchell, there's no telling what you're liable to attempt. "It didn't really occur to me to be daunted," he admits. "Maybe if it had, I would have been." It really doesn't matter how he got there. What counts is that Mitchell has produced a novel as accomplished as anything being written. Funny, tenderhearted and horrifying, often all at once, it refashions the rudiments of the ...
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