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    Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize

    David Mitchell

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    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004

    Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year

    Souls 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 p39 and p40 are intentionally blank*

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    Praise for Cloud Atlas

    • It knits together science fiction, political thriller and historical pastiche with musical virtuosity and linguistic exuberance: there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this year. - Guardian

    • An impeccable dance of genres . . . an elegiac, radiant festival of prescience, meditation and entertainment. - The Times

    • Impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices by a talent to watch. - Literary Editor's Best Books, Observer

    • The best novel of the year so far . . . a thrilling ride of a story - Observer

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    David Mitchell

    David Mitchell

    David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.

    In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.

    He lives in Ireland.

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