About this Event
Come and celebrate the release of the special edition of Cloud Atlas with the author himself! David will talk about his books before and audience Q&A and book signing.
Souls 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.
It is a source of intense pride that we can claim David Mitchell as genuinely one of our own. A sometime bookseller at our shop in Canterbury, Mitchell arrived in fully-formed brilliance with 1999’s Ghostwritten, his audacious, pan-story, pan-global novel that for some still remains the high-water mark of literary fiction. His subsequent works often exploited similar parallel narrative and philosophical exploration, notably 2004’s Cloud Atlas, which like 2001’s number9dream was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Black Swan Green, published in 2004, remains Mitchell’s most overtly autobiographical work, focusing on the Midlands of the author’s adolescence.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 1-5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham, United Kingdom
GBP 4.00 to GBP 33.00
