Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)

<b>#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NOW IN A DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION - 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</b> <p/><b>Printed on exquisite deckle-edged paper this edition features a stunning full-wrap jacket with luxurious soft-touch finish a vivid neon-printed case and full-color endpapers as well as a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin author of <i>Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow</i></b> <p/><b>One of the <i>New York Times</i>'s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize - A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century </b> <p/><i>Cloud Atlas</i> 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. <p/>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. <p/>As wild as a video game as mysterious as a Zen koan <i>Cloud Atlas</i> is an unforgettable tour de force that like its incomparable author has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.