About the Book

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; 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 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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 528 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Trade

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0375507256

Publication Date: Aug. 17th, 2004

ISBN-13: 9780375507250

Dimensions: 5.51 x 8.43 x 1.13 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.94 lbs

• Categories: Literary Fiction and Literature