![]() ![]() ![]() From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.Ī reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850 a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium an ambitious journalist in Governor Reagan’s California a vanity publisher fleeing the mendicant and violent family of his star author 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. Everyone seemed to agree that Cloud Atlas was a novel that rewards analysis or as one reader sardonically put it, it is 'just the sort of book most critics wish they'd written'. ![]()
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