Cloud Atlas

Author David Mitchell
Narrator various
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Run Time 21 hours and 27 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Fantasy, Modern and contemporary fiction, Science fiction.

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What to expect

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CLOUD ATLAS, David Mitchell's bestselling Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel which was also one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, has now been adapted for film.

The major motion picture, directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent Hugo Weaving, Doona Bae, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David and Hugh Grant.

The novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: 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.

Mitchell's other novels are GHOSTWRITTEN, NUMBER9DREAM, BLACK SWAN GREEN and A THOUSAND AUTUMS OF JACOB DE ZOET, all published by Sceptre.

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Critics Review

A magnificent tour de force

Time Out

A novel of breathtaking ambition and scale, spanning continents, oceans and centuries

Independent

Funny, exciting, imaginative and energetic

Evening Standard

A virtuoso performance . . . deeply impressive

Daily Telegraph

The way Mitchell inhabits the different voices of the novel is close to miraculous . . . No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease

Sunday Times

His most accomplished achievement to date . . . a novel in the biggest, most exhilarating sense

Observer

Gloriously inventive and dazzlingly virtuosic

Independent on Sunday

A thrilling ride of a story

Observer

Tremendous . . . one of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable

Spectator

Stunning . . . One of those rare books that manages to be enormously clever while resisting the temptation to show off

Daily Mail

Reassuringly excellent

Times Literary Supplement

Engrossing

Financial Times

Mitchell writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel’s every page

New York Times Book Review

This isn’t just one brilliant book, it’s a collection of six completely different brilliant books

Sunday Independent

Mind-bogglingly good

Elle

One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is – and should be – read by any student of contemporary literature

Dave Eggers

Astonishing . . . essential fiction for the 21st century

Independent

Not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I’ve never read anything quite like it

Michael Chabon

An intense, arcing colossus of a book whose narrative links, supplied by the voices of six main characters, are spun out into a unified theory of everything: history, human evolution, science, the will to power. The voices span epochs, continents, and genres . . . Mitchell has rightly commanded attention for the sheer breadth and energy of his composition . . . I am moved by (his) talent

Prospect

It takes only a few pages of any part of this masterful feast of a novel to make you want to read the rest

Evening Standard

David Mitchell may well be possessed of genius . . . As well-plotted, entertaining narrative, Cloud Atlas succeeds on many levels. As political and cultural fable, with an unerring humanist sense of the dangerous will to power that lies at the dark heart of man, it’s visionary

Irish Independent

As mind-bending in its ideas as it is accessible on the page . . . It pretty much resists hyperbole simply by being better than you’d ever dare hope

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