Cloud atlas

´ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY´ Independent Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pick ´Miraculous´ Sunday Times ´A masterful feast´ Evening Standard ´Shamelessly exciting´ Spectator ´Remarkable´ Guardian ´Stunning´ Daily Mail A novel of mind-bending imagination and scope from the author of Ghostwritten and Utopia Avenue 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 p. 39 and p. 40 are intentionally blank* PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL ´A thrilling and gifted writer´ Financial Times ´Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good´ Daily Mail ´Mitchell is, clearly, a genius´ New York Times Book Review ´An author of extraordinary ambition and skill´ Independent on Sunday