Published for the first time in flipback
- the new, portable, stylish format that`s taken Europe by storm. ` Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies.. .` 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 Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; & Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science & civilisation. The narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, & their destinies are changed in ways great & small. In his extraordinary novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre & time to offer a meditation on humanity`s dangerous will to power, & where it may lead us.