Number9Dream

‘Number9Dream’ begins simply enough: Eiji Miyake arrives in a seething metropolis to search for the father he has never met.

‘Number9Dream’ soon spirals out of hand and off any map, however, courtesy of a yakuza civil war, a Korean hostess whose name never stays still, a gold-toothed video landlord, a six-thousand-year-old cedar tree, a submariner’s final hour of air, John Lennon, a paranoid stepmother and her bloodless lawyer, ominous earthquake forecasts, a cybervirologist with bad breath, lost tales in a fabulist’s attic, and escapee from a Polish art movie, organ harvesters, Eiji’s nineteenth birthday and the most perfect neck in all creation.

‘Number9Dream’ is a dazzlingly inventive novel of cogs, gears, shifting realities and karaoke.