Cloud Atlas

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.

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.

A remarkable book ... 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 His wildest ride yet ... a singular achievement, from an author of extraordinary ambition and skill Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday 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. AS Byatt, Guardian Mitchell's storytelling in CLOUD ATLAS is of the best. I was, appropriately, captivated. Lawrence Norfolk, Independent The best novel of the year so far ... a thrilling ride of a story Philip Hensher, Summer Reading, Observer Impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices by a talent to watch. Literary Editor's Best Books, Observer