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Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

'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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 544
 Edition: Export Only Ed
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 02 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 0340833203
ISBN 13: 9780340833209
Prizes: Winner of British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2005 and British Book Awards: Literary Fiction Award 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.' -- The Times 'His wildest ride yet ... a singular achievement, from an author of extraordinary ambition and skill' -- Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday 'Mitchell's storytelling in CLOUD ATLAS is of the best. I was, appropriately, captivated.' -- Lawrence Norfolk, Independent '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
Author Bio
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.