Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) is a historical fantasy and historical fiction novel. It deals with fate and fatalism, Reincarnation, imaginary Voyages and destin et fatalisme.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 87 ratings, and 277 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 41 editions across 5 languages. It appeared on the New York Times Trade Fiction Paperback bestseller list in 2012.
At about 537 pages, most readers finish it in 9–10 hours.
About Cloud Atlas
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
Awards & lists
- ✦Nebula Awards 2005 — Best Novel (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2005 — Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
- ✦Arthur C. Clarke Award 2005 — Overall (nominee)
- 📰New York Times bestseller list — Trade Fiction Paperback, 2012
Quick answers
Who wrote Cloud Atlas?
Cloud Atlas was written by David Mitchell and first published in 2004.
What genre is Cloud Atlas?
It is usually shelved as Historical Fantasy and Historical Fiction.
How long is Cloud Atlas?
The median edition has 537 pages, about 9–10 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Cloud Atlas?
Readers who like it often enjoy She, Winter's Tale and The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2).
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