Cloud Atlas

The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize

De: David Mitchell

Narrado por: David Thorpe, Garrick Hagon, Jeff Harding, Liza Ross, Regina Reagan, Steve Hodson

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CLOUD ATLAS, David Mitchell's bestselling Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel which was also one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade, has now been adapted for film.

The major motion picture, directed by Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, and Andy Wachowski, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent Hugo Weaving, Doona Bae, James D'Arcy, Zhou Xun, Keith David and Hugh Grant.

The novel features six characters in interlocking stories, each interrupting the one before it: 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.

Mitchell's other novels are GHOSTWRITTEN, NUMBER9DREAM, BLACK SWAN GREEN and A THOUSAND AUTUMS OF JACOB DE ZOET, all published by Sceptre.

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Mitchell's almost comically ambitious novel is indeed a kind of cumulus: a wild and woolly condensation of ideas, styles and far-flung milieus whose only true commonality is the reincarnated soul at its center. The book's six nesting narratives - from 1850s New Zealand through 1930s Belgium, groovy California, recent-ish England, dystopian Korea and Hawaii - also often feel like a postmodern puzzle-box that whirls and clicks as its great world(s) spin, throwing off sparks of pulp, philosophy and fervid humanism (100 best books of the 21st century)

A magnificent tour de force

A novel of breathtaking ambition and scale, spanning continents, oceans and centuries

Funny, exciting, imaginative and energetic

A virtuoso performance . . . deeply impressive

The way Mitchell inhabits the different voices of the novel is close to miraculous . . . No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease (Robert Macfarlane)

His most accomplished achievement to date . . . a novel in the biggest, most exhilarating sense

Gloriously inventive and dazzlingly virtuosic

A thrilling ride of a story

Tremendous . . . one of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable

Stunning . . . One of those rare books that manages to be enormously clever while resisting the temptation to show off

Reassuringly excellent

Engrossing

Mitchell writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page

This isn't just one brilliant book, it's a collection of six completely different brilliant books

Mind-bogglingly good

One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is - and should be - read by any student of contemporary literature (Dave Eggers)

Astonishing . . . essential fiction for the 21st century

Not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it (Michael Chabon)

An intense, arcing colossus of a book whose narrative links, supplied by the voices of six main characters, are spun out into a unified theory of everything: history, human evolution, science, the will to power. The voices span epochs, continents, and genres . . . Mitchell has rightly commanded attention for the sheer breadth and energy of his composition . . . I am moved by (his) talent

It takes only a few pages of any part of this masterful feast of a novel to make you want to read the rest

David Mitchell may well be possessed of genius . . . As well-plotted, entertaining narrative, Cloud Atlas succeeds on many levels. As political and cultural fable, with an unerring humanist sense of the dangerous will to power that lies at the dark heart of man, it's visionary

A good book, brilliantly read

The talented group of narrators make this a great audio book that covers a great rate of inter-weaved stories

Sheer brilliance

This book will stay with me for a long time. The performances by the narrators are fantastic, but it is Mitchell’s writing and the way he structures the stories that truly captivates. Highly recommended.

this is a GREAT book. enjoyed it twice

i really good read. i wish i had a box full of it
clever structure. great character depth. great STORY. the best read in a long time.
like all good books:i pondered life and "nearly " had a tear
engaging!!

Multiple narrators, some good, some bad

This book had multiple narrators, some of them went to far with voices and dialects, while others read it like a school report.

Excellent

This was an incredible book. I have watched the film multiple times and loved it, but the book just makes it so much better. The book and the film are excellent compliments to one another and I recommend it to any person who has enjoyed either the book or the film.
The only difficulty is listening to the 5th story about Sonmi, the voice of the archivist is grating at first but one gets used to it as the story progresses. Will definitely listen to this again.