The days of summer are numbered. As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he arrives in Tokyo with a mission - to find the father he has never met.number9dream follows Eiji on a search that leads through the seething city's underworld, its lost property offices and video arcades; through his own imaginings, dreams and memories; via his alcoholic mother's letters, the manuscript of an attic fabulist, and the journal of a wartime torpedo pilot; to encounters with a syndicate of organ harvesters, John Lennon, and the god of thunder; and finally back to the rainy southern island of Yakushima, where everything that matters to Eiji began and ended.David Mitchell's second novel belongs in a Far Eastern, multi-textual, urban-pastoral, road-movie-of-the-mind, cyber-metaphysical, detective/family chronicle, coming-of-age-love-story genre of one. Views: 9
Jennifer Menlo loves her 911 dispatcher job, and especially loves helping
people. But one desperate call from a brave seven-year-old leaves her with a
yearning to do more, even though that’s strictly prohibited by the police
department. The boy discovers his mother’s body and when he calls 911 for help
Jen discovers the boy’s home is not far from where she lives. She doesn’t
hesitate to offer more than a helping hand.
Little does she know that a murderer who has killed once will readily chose
a second victim if that person threatens to reveal the killer’s identity.
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