From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning
writer and one of the featured authors inGranta’s “Best of
Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated
third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and
scope.
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 ofCloud Atlashear each other’s echoes down the
corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great
and small.
In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’ s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
