Cloud Atlas (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Novel
by David Mitchell
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Pub Date Oct 02 2012 | Archive Date Sep 03 2013
Random House Publishing Group | Random House Trade Paperbacks
Description
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, to an inglorious present-day England, to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.
But the story doesn’t end even there. The novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.
As wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
Advance Praise
"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
"Cloud
Atlas is, obviously, a formidable creation. . . . Fellow novelists will
find it hard not to heap . . . praise on David Mitchell, whose brilliance takes
one's breath away in a manner not unlike a first experience of Chartres or the
Duomo."
-The Globe and Mail
"Cloud Atlas is a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly
ruminative."
-People
"Mitchell's range is astonishing, moving effortlessly from elegant genre
fiction to satire to high-end literary pyrotechnics....to Mitchell - prodigiously
skilled and gloriously ambitious - I can only say, bravo!"
-Toronto Star
"Cloud Atlas imposes a dizzying series of milieus, characters
and conflicts upon us . . . [and] feels like a doggedly expert gloss on various
writers and modes."
-The New York Times
"Audacious, dazzling.... Readers who enjoy the 'novel as puzzle' will find much
to savor in this original and occasionally very entertaining work."
-Publishers Weekly
"The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and
yet - not just dazzling, amusing or clever but heartbreaking and
passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm grateful to
have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds, which are all one world, which
is, in turn, enchanted by Mitchell's spell-caster prose, our own."
-Michael Chabon
Advance UK reviews for Cloud Atlas:
"the third novel from the genre-busting David Mitchell, author of Ghostwritten
and the Booker-shortlisted Number9Dream is a remarkable book, made up of
six resonating strands; the narrative reaches back into the 19th century, to
colonialism and savagery in the Pacific islands, and forwards into a dark
future, beyond the collapse of civilisation. It knits together science fiction,
political thriller and historical pastiche with musical virtuosity and
linguistic exuberance: there won't be a bigger, bolder novel next year."
-Justine Jordan, Guardian, Preview of 2004
"David Mitchell is by no means a complete unknown, but I shall be very
surprised if his next book, the sprawling and ambitious Cloud Atlas
doesn't propel him into the front rank of novelists. I only wish it had been
there for this year's Man Booker judges to consider."
-D J Taylor, Independent, Preview of 2004
"A daunting talent, adept with the global canvas, and able to move from
the technological to the spiritual with supernatural ease."
-Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday, Preview of 2004
"Watch out for Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a work of
free-wheeling fantasy by a cutting-edge writer."
-David Robson, Sunday Telegraph, Preview of 2004
Praise for David Mitchell:
"Mitchell possesses an amazingly copious and eclectic imagination."
-William Boyd
"[Ghostwritten is] one of the best first novels I've read for a long
time. . . . I couldn't put it down. . . . And it's even better the second
time."
-A. S. Byatt
"Mitchell has a gift for fiction's natural pleasures -- intricate surprises,
insidiously woven narratives, ingenious voices."
-The New York Times Book Review
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780812984415 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 528 |
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