Cloud Atlas

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. A 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. In his captivating 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

Set in

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  Chatham Islands · New Zealand

  1850s Pacific journal, Moriori
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• Zedelgem · Belgium

  Frobisher letters, 1931 composer estate
• San Francisco · United States

  Luisa Rey thriller, 1973
• London · United Kingdom

  Timothy Cavendish publishing comedy, 2012
• Seoul · South Korea

  Sonmi-451 dystopian clone narrative, 2144
• Hawaii · United States

  Zachry post-apocalyptic narrative, 2321
• Bruges · Belgium

  Robert Frobisher, interwar composer
• Hull · United Kingdom

  Timothy Cavendish, Aurora House nursing home