Author: David MitchellTitle: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
Publisher: Random House
Date: 2004 (Modern Library edition, 2012)
Pages: 509
ISBN13: 978-0-8129-9471-1
Readership level: General
Genre: Fiction
Worldcat: Worldcat persistent link
From the publisher's website:
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.