Cloud Atlas

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 529, [3]. Publisher's maroon cloth blocked in turquoise foil to spine; green decorative endpapers. Dust-jacket designed by Kai Clements and Sunny (priced at £16.99 to front flap). With the original wrap-around band.

Signed by Mitchell to title-page with his characteristic squiggle.

Author's third book. Short-listed for the 2004 Man Booker Prize as well as the Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. Listed at no. 9 in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. Six interlocking stories, encompassing a surfeit of genres, and spanning everything, from nineteenth century exploration to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. In a 2019 interview with the Guardian, Mitchell said he had "a wish to see how many narratives I could embed, in a fractal sort of way, in a single novel."

Basis for the 2012 Wachowski siblings' and Tom Tykwer's film adaptation starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, and Hugh Grant. "One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it modern classics." –Dave Eggers