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By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET David Mitchell's bestselling & Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade & has now been made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks Halle Berry Susan Sarandon Jim Sturgess Ben Whishaw Jim Broadbent & Hugh Grant 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 third 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.

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