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Synopsis
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’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; an ambitious journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing the mendicant and violent family of his star author; 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. 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
Is Cloud Atlas appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
Cloud Atlas spans centuries and genres, containing moderate violence, themes of slavery and oppression, and a dystopian future — mature content best suited for older teens and adults.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, mild sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include genocide, slavery, captivity, and mass death (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
A complex, ambitious novel weaving six interconnected stories across time, best appreciated by older, experienced readers.