Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller shortlisted for the Booker Prize [Paperback] Mitchell David

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 John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism.

He lives with in Ireland with his family.

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the South Bank Show Award for Literature
Winner of the Richard & Judy Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Arthur C. Clarke Award and Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region)

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.

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearA remarkable book ... there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this year.An impeccable dance of genres . . . an elegiac, radiant festival of prescience, meditation and entertainment.A singular achievement, from an author of extraordinary ambition and skill.David Mitchell entices his readers onto 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.Mitchell's storytelling in Cloud Atlas is of the best.Impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices by a talent to watch.