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.
David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten,
number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns
of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks and Slade House. He has been
shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the John Llewellyn
Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes
among others, and been named a Granta Best Young British Novelist.
In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence,
given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work.
In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated
from the Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump:
One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism and
Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the
Silence of Autism.
He lives with his wife and their two children in Ireland.
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A remarkable book ... there won't be a bigger, bolder novel this
year.
*Guardian*
An impeccable dance of genres . . . an elegiac, radiant festival of
prescience, meditation and entertainment.
*The Times*
A singular achievement, from an author of extraordinary ambition
and skill.
*Independent on Sunday*
David Mitchell entices his readers onto a rollercoaster, and at
first they wonder if they want to get off. Then - at least in my
case - they can't bear the journey to end.
*Guardian*
Mitchell's storytelling in Cloud Atlas is of the best.
*Independent*
Impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices by a talent to
watch.
*Observer*
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