false 4711575 196532 49628 0375507256 9780375507250 1194 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170360941m/49628.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170360941s/49628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49628.Cloud_Atlas 4.23 6175 Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.

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.]]> 4565 4.05 14497 2615 2004 0 0 false Fri Aug 17 16:33:34 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 16:33:34 -0700 2007