Music is a universal language that transcends both time and physical barriers. Every important juncture in history is also characterized by its music. The influences of music ripples all over the world. The jive and the vibe can make us unconsciously sway as in a trance.

Through notes and sounds, some alien and foreign, music has the power to make us feel deeper emotions. When you feel down or sad, you listen to music. When you feel elated, you listen to music or you make music. We listen to music to soothe an aching heart, to “fix a broken heart,”. It is a language that knows no boundaries, tangible or intangible.

Mitchell's American editor at Random House is novelist David Ebershoff.It has been said time and time again that music is a universal language that majority, if not all, of us can relate to. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. His two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I'd spent the last 6 years in London, or Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig or in the circus? This is my answer to myself.' Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: 'I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A.

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