David Mitchell's second novel and the fourth I've read by him. This time its a mainly linear story instead of the intricate structures of "Ghostwritten" and "Cloud Atlas".
The books tells the story of seven weeks in the life of Eiji Miyake, a young school-leaver from a rural part of Japan as he travels to the big smoke of Tokyo on mission to find the father he never knew. Along the way he finds jobs, love and Yakuza gangsters. There are a few digressions during his quest - we read the series of odd short stories he finds in a safe house and follow the journal of an ancestor in the WW2 Japanese navy. The ending is a bit of a shock and hit home with me due to recent events here (hint hint). Overall a great read.
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