Cloud Atlas (Signed by the author)

David Mitchell

ISBN 10: 1399725998 / ISBN 13: 9781399725996

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, London, GB, 2024

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Signed by the author (Signed by the author) A SPECIAL SIGNED ANNIVERSARY EDITION CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF CLOUD ATLASWith an introduction by Gabrielle Zevin (author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow) and a new afterword by David MitchellWith unmissable sprayed edges and endpapers, beautiful turquoise foil, a bespoke case design, ribbon marker, peelable sticker and signed by the author, this stunning 20th anniversary hardback of Cloud Atlas is the perfect gift for fans'Nothing short of a miracle'THE TIMES'A novel of breathtaking ambition and scale, spanning continents, oceans and centuries'INDEPENDENT'A virtuoso performance'DAILY TELEGRAPH'One of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable'SPECTATOR'Not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it'MICHAEL CHABON'One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt it - and should be - read by any student of contemporary literature'DAVE EGGERSSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . .A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850.A disinherited composer conning his way into the home of a dying genius in interwar Belgium.A high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California.A vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors.The testament of 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 along the corridor of history - echoes that change destinies in ways great and small.In a globe-encircling narrative reaching from the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.*Please note that p. 40 is intentionally blank*Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, winner of Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year and a BBC Two Between the Covers Book Club pickPRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL'A thrilling and gifted writer'FINANCIAL TIMES'Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'DAILY MAIL'Mitchell is, clearly, a genius'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'An author of extraordinary ambition and skill'INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY'A superb storyteller'THE NEW YORKER.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Cloud Atlas (Signed by the author)
• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton, London, GB
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1399725998
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781399725996
• Reliure: hard
• État de l'article: fine
• État de la jaquette: fine
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future―from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. The novel careens, with dazzling virtuosity, to Belgium in 1931, to the West Coast in the 1970s, 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 novel boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, David 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 video game, 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.

À propos de l?auteur

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.

He lives in Ireland.