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Eiji Miyake ha diciannove anni, molti sogni e pochi soldi. Dopo la scomparsa della madre e della sorella, decide di andare alla ricerca del padre che non ha mai conosciuto e, dalla sua isoletta, parte alla volta di Tokyo. Subito la città tentacolare lo avvolge con la sua vastità e, mentre gli indizi per ritrovare il padre si fanno sempre più labili, il giovane si rende conto che ci sono altre domande a cui deve dare risposta: perché gliene capitano di tutti i colori? Perché le sue esperienze sembrano mescolarsi continuamente ai sogni? E cosa significa l'ossessiva ricorrenza del numero 9? Il percorso di Eiji alla scoperta della propria identità scivola così in un viaggio immaginario... In bilico tra sogno e realtà, tra mondi onirici e bassifondi urbani, un singolare romanzo di formazione dal respiro dickensiano che si scompone e ricompone diventando di volta in volta thriller, favola, tragedia e storia d'amore.
- ISBN: 880473244X
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
- Pagine: 516
- Data di uscita: 02-03-2021
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' Maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it. ' Like the song by John Lennon which inspired the title of this novel, David Mitchell plays with the fusion of dreams and reality as he sends the reader spiraling through the chimerical passages of Number9dream . This second novel is a departure from Leggi tutto
The narration is dreamlike… Is life but a dream? Eiji Miyake is searching for his father but he finds so many different things… Squeeze, squelch, squirt. Crocodiles scream, even underwater. The jaws unscissor and the monster thrashes off in spirals. Lao Tzu mimes applause, but I have already gone thr Leggi tutto
I want to say, "It was me, it wasn't you," to this novel. She and I just didn't click. She's obviously got a lot going for her besides her perfect neck, including a horribly pretentious style and a vividly dramatic penchant for detail, but while I had a very good time with some of his other novels a Leggi tutto
How Will I Know? Whitney Houston sings, “How will I know if he really loves me?” Pop Music asks some of the most probing questions we can imagine. Many of them are secular versions of Spirituals, Gospel Music or Hymns. How will I know if He really loves me?How will I know if He really exists?How will I Leggi tutto
You know those compound German constructions, like schadenfreude , comprised of dissimilar single words? Well, I’ve got a new one that ought to exist if it doesn’t already. It’s schadenselbstungeduld , which translates roughly to “the sadness of your own impatience.” Maybe you can guess why I’m bringi Leggi tutto
Do you ever set books aside for a special occasion? I like to keep certain novels on hold for holidays, so that when I reminisce about a particular vacation, I will also think about what I was reading at the time. I have very fond memories of devouring The Goldfinch on a visit to London a couple of
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