Winner of Best Read of the Year and the Literary Fiction Award at the British Book Awards 2005. David Mitchell entices his readers on to a rollercoaster, and at first they wonder if they want to get off. Then - at least in my case - they can't bear the journey to end. Like Scheherazade, and like serialised Victorian novels and modern soaps, he ends his episodes on cliffhangers and missed heartbeats.
But unlike these, he starts his next tale in another place, in another time, in another vocabulary, and expects us to go through it all again. Trust the tale. He reaches a cumulative ending of all of them, and then finishes them all individually, giving a complete narrative pleasure that is rare. A 2011 World Book Night selection.
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future-from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future-from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fictionOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyCloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr.
Cloud Atlas features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Literary Fiction, Literary Fiction
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Cloud Atlas was written by David Mitchell and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks an imprint of Random House Publishing Group
Cloud Atlas has 509 pages
