A novel by this author opens with the protagonist waiting in a café outside the PanOpticon skyscraper, but failing to work up the courage to approach a lawyer who works there. In that novel by this author, the protagonist and his friend Yuzu Daimon are kidnapped by a yakuza gang. The ninth and final chapter is left blank in a novel by this author about Eiji (“ay-jee”) Miyake’s search for his father. In a novel by this author, a member of the rebel group Union reveals that some characters are recycled into a food called “Soap.” The dystopian state of Nea So Copros in Korea is the setting of a narrative by this author in which a restaurant called Papa Song’s employs the fabricant Sonmi~451. A novel by this author includes “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” and “Letters from Zedelghem” among its six nested stories. For 10 points, name this British author of number9dream and Cloud Atlas. ■END■
ANSWER: David Mitchell [or David Stephen Mitchell]
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