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About the book

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, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, 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 brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point.

About the author

Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, "Cloud Atlas" is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon. Praise for the "New York Times" bestseller "Cloud Atlas" " David Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page."--"The New York Times Book Review" "One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is--and should be--read by any student of contemporary literature."--Dave Eggers "Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative."--"People" "The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet--not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it, and I'm grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds."--Michael Chabon ""Cloud Atlas" ought to make Mitchell famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Thrilling . . . One of the biggest joys in "Cloud Atlas" is watching Mitchell sashay from genre to genre without a hitch in his dance step."--"Boston Sunday Globe" "Grand and elaborate . . . Mitchell creates a world and language at once foreign and strange, yet strikingly familiar and intimate."--"Los Angeles Times"I'M A REGULAR ONLINE BUYER. FROM BOOKS TO MOBILES TO TELEVISIONS, I BUY ALMOST EVERYTHING ONLINE, FROM ALL THE LEADING SITES ON THE NET..! BUT THIS WAS MY FIRST PURCHASE FROM INFIBEAM, & I'M SIMPLY OVERJOYED WITH THE EXPERIENCE..! 1. I GOT THE DELIVERY, IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS, THE LOWEST TIME TAKEN FOR ANY DELIVERY AS YET, FOR ME. 2. THE BOOK WAS EXTREMELY WELL-PACKED & RECEIVED IN PERFECT "SHINING" CONDITION, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR BOOKWORMS LIKE ME..! 3. CALL SUPPORT, TRACKING TOOLS, & WEBSITE FLAWLESSNESS SIMPLY AMAZED ME..! N LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST, THE BOOK IS SIMPLY MIND-BLOWING..! FOR THOSE WHO'VE SEEN THE MOVIE, I'D ASK THEM TO STILL BUY THE BOOK..! IT'LL SIMPLE LEAVE U SPEECHLESS..! :)