num_pages: 509
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: Hae-Joo Im, Dr. Goose, Meronym, Vyvyan Ayrs, Joe Napier, Zachry, Autua, Fay Li, Mr. Meeks, Bill Smoke, Rufus Sixsmith, Ernie Blacksmith, Yoona-939, Isaac Sachs, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Sonmi~451, Robert Frobisher, Luisa Rey, Javier Gomez, Timothy Cavendish, Jocasta Ayrs, Adam Ewing, Nurse Noakes, Old Georgie
genres: Historical, Literature, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Contemporary
ratings_count: 244410
places: London, England, The United States of America, Maui, Hawaii, Buenas Yerbas, Belgium, South Korea, England, Neerbeke, West Vlaanderen, Chatham Islands, Seoul, South Korea
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: Vintage Canada