Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas--------------------------------------------------By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell'sbestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was one of Richard &Judy's 100 Books of the Decade and has now been made into a major motionpicture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess,Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant A reluctant voyager crossing" the Pacific in 1850" livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium" Governor Reagans California" creditorsa young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisationthe narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each others echoes down the corridorof history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundariesof language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerouswill to power, and where it may lead us.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: David Mitchells first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was publishedin 1999. It was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prizefor the best book by a writer under thirty-five, and was also shortlistedfor the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM,followed in 2001 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well asthe James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selectedas one of Grantas Best of Young British Novelists. He also returnedto Britain from Japan, where he spent several years, and now livesin Ireland.