"How can there be a book that maps these continents of clouds that drift apart, reshape their puzzle pieces, and coalesce into new geographies of air within one windblown hour?" Donald Platt delights
Newly added to the Modern Library, this edition makes Cloud Atlas available in hardcover for the very first time. A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction,
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearSouls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . . Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narra
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel,
Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening—and of a young soldier who came to
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 fo
The film tie-in edition of David Mitchell's prize-winning novel. The film, released internationally in 2012, stars Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent.By
Soon to be a major motion picture with a wide release for holiday 2012, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, and Jim Sturgess. It is co-directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski, directors/writers of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, and Tom Tykwer, director/writer of Perfume and Run Lola Run.A time-warp, time-travel, Chinese-box of a novel about the legacy of the written word and the soul's place in the universe.Story Locale: South Pacific, Belgium, California, Hawaii, London
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope ins
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope ins
