Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
'Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...' A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation - the narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
A remarkable book.. there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this year. - GuardianMitchell's storytelling in CLOUD ATLAS is of the best. I was, appropriately, captivated. - IndependentAn impeccable dance of genres ... an elegiac, radiant festival of prescience, meditation and entertainment. - The Times
David Mitchell was born in 1969 and his first novel, Ghostwritten, was published by Sceptre in 1999 to great acclaim and won the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, number9dream (2001) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. He was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists 2003. David was born in Southport, Lancashire, lived in Hiroshima for eight years and now lives in the west of Ireland. Cloud Atlas will be published by Sceptre in March 2003.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340832370 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340832371 |
| Title | Cloud Atlas |
| Author | David Mitchell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2004-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Prizes | Winner of British Book Awards: Literary Fiction Award 2005, Winner of British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2005, Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004 |
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