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Publisher of Nominated Edition
Sceptre ISBN 0340822775
Random House Inc. ISBN 0375507256
Vintage Canada ISBN 0676974945

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 Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; 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 down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.

In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

David Mitchell is one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. His first novel, Ghostwritten, won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award and his second, number9dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2004. After living in Japan for several years, David now lives in Ireland.