The most impressive fictional mind of his generation. * Observer *Ambitious and fascinating . . . Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money. * Kirkus Reviews *Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful. * Sunday Times *Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant * The Times *David Mitchell is back with a bang . . . superb * Irish Independent *Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive. * New York Times Book Review *Hugely enjoyable . . . the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate * Literary Review *Lose yourself in a world of incredible scope, originality and imaginative brilliance. * Independent on Sunday *However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags . . . Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work. * Independent *Moving, thoughtful and unexpectedly funny * Observer, Books of the Year *A masterpiece * Scotsman *A novel which actually deserves the accolade "tour de force". * Daily Telegraph *Pitch-perfect * Independent Books of the Year *Arguably his finest . . . It will doubtless earn Mitchell his fourth Man Booker nomination and, if there's any justice, his first win. * Sunday Telegraph *A world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat . . . David Mitchell has done it again * Independent on Sunday *

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks and Slade House. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism. He lives with his wife and their two children in Ireland.