A review by susanlawson
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

4.0

A wide-ranging but interrelated group of stories about characters across the globe, highlighting how we are all connected and share the same home and often the same fate. Events take place on the Tokyo Underground (similar to the real-life sarin gas attack), at a tea shack on a Holy Mountain throughout recent Chinese history, in Hong Kong, Mongolia, Petersburg, London and Ireland, where a scientist returns to her simple family life, only to be pursued by the might of her American employers, for whom she has developed a device, now being used, against her will as a weapon of mass destruction. Nuclear War is averted by the scientist when she is forced to continue work on the weapon but causes the launcher to be blocked. A complex but, surprisingly, very readable novel.