Cloud Atlas

IndependentShortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick'Miraculous'Sunday Times'A masterful feast'Evening Standard'Shamelessly exciting'Spectator'Remarkable'Guardian'Stunning'Daily MailA novel of mind-bending imagination and scope from the author of Ghostwritten and Utopia AvenueSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . . Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us. *Please note that the end of p. 39 and p. 40 are intentionally blank*PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL'A thrilling and gifted writer'Financial Times'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'Daily Mail'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'New York Times Book Review'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'Independent on Sunday'A superb storyteller'The New Yorker