An astonishing range of textures and voices are combined to make these worlds feel real. ' Cloud Atlas does not want for ambition, and Mitchell proves - six different ways - that he has the imagination and technique to deliver a fully figured world with its own language, landscape and customs.He isn't afraid to jerk tears or ratchet up suspense - he understands that's what we make stories for.' - A.S.Byatt, The Guardian (.) Cloud Atlas is powerful and elegant because of Mitchell's understanding of the way we respond to those fundamental and primitive stories we tell about good and evil, love and destruction, beginnings and ends. He reaches a cumulative ending of all of them, and then finishes them all individually, giving a complete narrative pleasure that is rare.

Vielleicht braucht er nicht einmal einen Leser.' - Kolja Mensing, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Dieser durch und durch perfekte Roman braucht keinen Rezensenten.

'Angesichts derart entwaffnender Ironie und charmanter Selbstbezüglichkeit bleibt eigentlich nur noch die wortlose Kapitulation.

Even for David Mitchell, that's a difficult balancing act to pull off.' - Theo Tait, Daily Telegraph (.) Cloud Atlas spends half its time wanting to be The Simpsons and the other half the Bible. (.) There is a mighty problem of tone as the novel proceeds towards its post-apocalyptic core. The novel is, essentially, a grand fictional treatise about the will to power - whether corporate or tribal, personal or consumer.

'Mitchell's ambition and his dedication compel respect.

Not quite a consensus, but most very impressed

Cloud Atlas is being made into a movie, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Tom Hanks, Hugo Weaving and Halle Berry it is due to be released in the fall of 2012ī+ : good stories, though still too much focus on pieces over whole.

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