<b>Number9Dream</b> is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy&#8212;an intoxicating ride through Tokyo&#8217;s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. <br><br>David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, <i>Ghostwritten</i>, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, <b>Number9Dream</b> is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister&#8217;s death and his mother&#8217;s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses&#8212;through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck&#8212;a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father&#8217;s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his expe