Great Book Alert!

I am currently reading Ghostwritten by David Mitchell.

I picked it up a few days ago at the Hong Kong Book Centre (really a rather small bookshop on the basement level of a huge skyscraper). It was published in 1999 but for some reason my finely tuned good-book radar didn't pick up on it. It's nine interconnected sotries about people from all walks of life, starts out in Okinawa and then moves to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Some mountain in China, moving west and ending in a nightclub in New York. Sophisticated, edgy and unpredictable--just how I want to be one day.