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For the sugggested re-reading order:
* Thousand Autumns * Cloud Atlas * Utopia Avenue * Black Swan Green * Ghostwritten * Number9Dream * The Bone Clocks * Slade House
- The Disappearing Acts of Haruki Murakami thenation.com
His readers might recognize his signature touches—affectless narration, illogical plot turns, strangely dispassionate sexual encounters, all brought to life via a suite of signifiers with an unarticulated personal meaning, such as the many references to music, baseball, cats, cooking, and so on—but they belong to Murakami. (That said, the English novelist David Mitchell’s Number9Dream comes thrillingly close to Murakami, maybe the most successful work of literary fan fiction ever published.)
- Foyles - David Mitchell Selects... foyles.co.uk
To celebrate the publication of his eagerly anticipated new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell makes a selection, exclusively for Foyles, of his favourite books.
- Two words that stalk Dr Who, Rose - and me telegraph.co.uk
"All I can think about is one thing: bad wolf. "Bad what?" you say. You obviously haven't been watching Dr Who."
- Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Genesis books.guardian.co.uk
David Mitchell reveals how his books coagulate slowly in a primordial idea-soup