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Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell.The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai'i in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
- David Stephen Mitchell
- 544 (first edition, hardback)
- 2004
- 2004 (Sceptre)
Mar 1, 2004 · Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of ...
- (249K)
- Paperback
Aug 17, 2004 · Cloud Atlas: A Novel. Paperback – August 17, 2004. A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco ...
- David Stephen Mitchell
- $12.22
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
Cloud Atlas Summary. Next. Chapter 1. In the Chatham Islands, of the coast of New Zealand, Adam Ewing writes in his journal about meeting a strange doctor named Henry Goose. The two become friends. While on the island, Adam learns about the history of the Moriori people, who existed peacefully on the island until the Maori came and attacked ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Learn about the Booker Prize-nominated novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a genre-defying epic of six interconnected stories that explore the human experience and the post-industrial age. Find out how the book is structured, who wrote it, and what people have said about it.
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Cloud Atlas, novel by David Mitchell, published in 2004.. Cloud Atlas is a polyphonic compendium of interlacing but nonlinear parables.Divided into six different accounts spanning several centuries, Mitchell ranges from the journal of a 19th-century American notary to the post-apocalyptic memoir of a herdsman, Zachry.
About Cloud Atlas. By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of ...
