Cloud Atlas (published in the United States as Cloud Atlas: A Novel) is a 2004 novel, the third book by British author David Mitchell. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award and the Richard & Judy Book of the Year award, and was short-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and other awards.
The novel consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. All stories but the last are interrupted at some moment, and after the sixth story concludes at the center of the book, the novel "goes back" in time, "closing" each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850.
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Wishlist surprise for you! Enjoy!

This was such a wonderful surprise! Thank you very much.

I hope you had a nice stay in Aarhus. I certainly enjoyed seeing you again and liked our little release walk. Hopefully the journal entries will begin spamming your mailbox soon :)

This was a truly amazing read. The different stories were all very vivid and interesting and I really loved the language as well, where the style of writing reflects the period of time the story is supposed to take place in.
It is one of the best books I've read in a very long time and I think will be for some time to come as well.
Thank you so very much ApoloniaX for giving me this book!

This book will be released at the BookCrossing Convention 2013.