{"product_id":"cloud-atlas-20th-anniversary-edition","title":"Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs wild as a video game, as mysterious as a Zen koan, \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ghostwritten\u003c\/i\u003e. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Reason I Jump\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50611624444178,"sku":"9780812994711","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_546da20d-0722-41fa-8b36-b236a4a55fbf.jpg?v=1732364589","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cloud-atlas-20th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}