Kadomi reviewed Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Review of 'Ghostwritten' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I don't know what it is about this author that I love so much but once again I was totally addicted to his writing. Ghostwritten consists of 9 different stories with different narrators, starting in Okinawa and going more west with every chapter. Each story kinda overlaps, and shows the Chaos effect, small actions changing the course of the story. I found it utterly intriguing to locate the shared elements in each story. There's always a camphor tree, characters always feel like someone's breathing down their neck, etc. My favorite chapter was probably The Holy Mountain about a woman running a Tea Shack on said mountain, and experiencing all the changes from feudal China, Japanese invaders and Mao's Great Leap Forward.
Some of the characters actually show up again in Cloud Atlas. It's so good.