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Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize

by David Mitchell (Author)

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Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004 Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us. *Please note that the end of p39 and p40 are intentionally blank*

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 529
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 01 Jan 2014
ISBN 10: 0340822783
ISBN 13: 9780340822784
Book Overview: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
 Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: Literary Fiction Award 2005 and British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2005. Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004.

Media Reviews
A remarkable book ... there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this year. * Guardian *
An impeccable dance of genres . . . an elegiac, radiant festival of prescience, meditation and entertainment. -- Neel Mukherjee * The Times *
A singular achievement, from an author of extraordinary ambition and skill. -- Matt Thorne * Independent on Sunday *
David Mitchell entices his readers onto a rollercoaster, and at first they wonder if they want to get off. Then - at least in my case - they can't bear the journey to end. -- AS Byatt * Guardian *
Mitchell's storytelling in Cloud Atlas is of the best. -- Lawrence Norfolk * Independent *
Impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices by a talent to watch. -- Literary Editor's Best Books * Observer *
Author Bio

Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten. Published in 1999, it was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for six awards including the Man Booker Prize, and adapted for film in 2012. It was followed by Black Swan Green, shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, which was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Both were also longlisted for the Booker.

In 2013, The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida was published in a translation from the Japanese by David Mitchell and KA Yoshida. David Mitchell's sixth novel is The Bone Clocks (Sceptre, 2014).