'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 Goverr 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 vel, 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
ISBN-10
0340833203
ISBN-13
9780340833209
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183100066
Product Key Features
Author
David Mitchell
Format
A-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Content Note
A Format
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.
Author Biography
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.