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This is an ambitious novel. It is a sextet – six voices that tell different but related stories. It ranges in genre from fast-paced action to sci-fi to nineteenth century journal – and each adds to the multi-layered texture of the novel. As well as thought-provoking (it takes on big issues) and clever it is ultimately emotionally satisfying. Highly recommended.
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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.
Accolades
Winner of British Book Awards: Literary Fiction Award 2005.
Winner of British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2005.
Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004.
Author Biography
David Mitchells first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was published in 1999. It was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under thirty-five, and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM, followed in 2001 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Grantas Best of Young British Novelists. He also returned to Britain from Japan, where he spent several years, and now lives in Ireland.
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