Cloud Atlas

Fiction, Fiction & Poetry, General Fiction

David Mitchell (author)

Hardback Published on: 11/04/2024

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Synopsis

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850.

A disinherited composer conning his way into the home of a dying genius in interwar Belgium.
A high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California.

A vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors.

The testament of 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 along the corridor of history - echoes that change destinies in ways great and small.

In a globe-encircling narrative reaching from the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.

*Please note that p. 40 is intentionally blank*

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781399725996
Number of pages: 544
Weight: 811g
Dimensions: 238 x 160 x 50 mm

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Very thought-provoking

An intriguing read from a wide range of perspectives, there's something for everyone in what I found to be a fantastic novel. It's incredibly interesting t... READ MORE

P Cross

dont bother

We chose this for our book group. Everyone struggled to read the book, and no-one got the point or felt that any link had been established between the disj... READ MORE

romsey chechy

Brilliant!

Amazing novel - very intricate and gave me lots to think about

Marcus Hawthorne

Incredible Plot Weaving

This is honest to god the best book I've ever read. I can't count how many people I've recommended this book to over the years, as it manages to hit every ... READ MORE

Chloé Bonnell

brilliant

One of the best books I've read in ages! It was recommended to me by my brother and I have just bought a copy for a friend. Each story is exciting and fast... READ MORE

lora

Stick with it until the end...

I hd to be honest I brought this purely on other peoples reviews, and at first I found it very hard going. The style of writting is different to most thing... READ MORE

Helen Turnbull

Cloud Atlas

Rather difficult to get to grips with. Connections between six almost totally dissimilar threads were confusing at first but when one had got used to the f... READ MORE

Roger Matthews

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doyle

Cloud Atlas

A multi-layered modern novel that takes the reader on a journey across both continents and, time.An audacious literary achievement by one of the UK's fines... READ MORE

Mark Phelps

Cloud Atlas

I thought this was a rare and truly magical book, weaving six essentially separate short stories (and in doing so, six entirely distinct genres) into one n... READ MORE

Lisa Stewart

A collection of Short Stories

This book is 6 short stories with rather contrived, tenuous links between them. Each story breaks off half way through, when the next starts. Then this cyc... READ MORE

Joe Franks

amazing

I found this story so engrossing and could not put it down, his characters were so entertaining and each tale took you on a journey of discovery, so differ... READ MORE

readyreader

Cloud Atlas

I had heard such brilliant reviews of this book that I could not wait to read it. Very disappointed, I plodded on to the end hoping to be drawn in and ent... READ MORE

K Sykes

Cloud Atlas

This book contains six stories. It starts off with a man writing his journal aboard a ship, followed by a musician obtaining his dream and recording it in ... READ MORE

Rebecca Carney

Tough going

I bought this after really enjoying The Bone Clocks, however, the individual stories were really tough to get into - and some in particular were hard to re... READ MORE

JAMES GALL

Thoughtful and exciting

I really enjoyed this. I think his bone clocks is a more assured performance, but this earlier novel is a great read as well as an uncomfortably propheti... READ MORE

Harriet Guest

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