num_pages: 531
description: 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 captivating 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.
language: English
title: Cloud Atlas
titlecomplete: Cloud Atlas
characters: Zachry, Jocasta Ayrs, Rufus Sixsmith, Adam Ewing, Isaac Sachs, Dr. Goose, Sonmi~451, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Joe Napier, Mr. Meeks, Old Georgie, Ernie Blacksmith, Hae-Joo Im, Javier Gomez, Yoona-939, Robert Frobisher, Bill Smoke, Fay Li, Vyvyan Ayrs, Timothy Cavendish, Luisa Rey, Meronym, Nurse Noakes, Autua
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 244409
places: England, South Korea, London, England, Buenas Yerbas, Maui, Hawaii, Belgium, Chatham Islands, Seoul, South Korea, The United States of America, Neerbeke, West Vlaanderen
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: British Book Award
category: Best Read of the Year, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books
publisher: Sceptre