num_pages: 544
description: From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.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: Isaac Sachs, Timothy Cavendish, Old Georgie, Meronym, Sonmi~451, Fay Li, Rufus Sixsmith, Vyvyan Ayrs, Dr. Goose, Zachry, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Mr. Meeks, Yoona-939, Joe Napier, Javier Gomez, Jocasta Ayrs, Adam Ewing, Bill Smoke, Hae-Joo Im, Autua, Nurse Noakes, Robert Frobisher, Ernie Blacksmith, Luisa Rey
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Dystopia
ratings_count: 244455
places: Seoul, South Korea, The United States of America, Maui, Hawaii, Neerbeke, West Vlaanderen, Belgium, Buenas Yerbas, England, South Korea, Chatham Islands, London, England
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