

In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th 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. Six interlocking lives – one amazing adventure. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pickĪ novel of mind-bending imagination and scope from the author of Ghostwritten and Utopia Avenue Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of.

‘ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY’ Independent In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th 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.
