num_pages: 529
description: An alternate cover for this edition can be found here and here. The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power. A reluctant voyager crosses the Pacific in 1850. A disinherited composer gatecrashes in between-wars Belgium. A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors. Others are a journalist in Governor Reagan’s California, and genetically-modified dinery server on death-row. Finally, a young Pacific Islander witnesses the nightfall of science and civilization.
language: English
title: Cloud Atlas
titlecomplete: Cloud Atlas
characters: Robert Frobisher, Rufus Sixsmith, Bill Smoke, Timothy Cavendish, Joe Napier, Jocasta Ayrs, Vyvyan Ayrs, Javier Gomez, Zachry, Yoona-939, Ernie Blacksmith, Meronym, Dr. Goose, Mr. Meeks, Autua, Adam Ewing, Luisa Rey, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Hae-Joo Im, Old Georgie, Isaac Sachs, Fay Li, Nurse Noakes, Sonmi~451
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Dystopia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 244402
places: Maui, Hawaii, Neerbeke, West Vlaanderen, Seoul, South Korea, England, London, England, South Korea, The United States of America, Belgium, Chatham Islands, Buenas Yerbas
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