Cloud Atlas

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 544 pages, none

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Imprint:Sceptre

ISBN:9780340822784

Published: 9 Sep 2004

Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Fantasy

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:376g

Dimensions:197 x 134 x 35 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

1850年不情愿穿越太平洋的旅行者;一个被剥夺了继承权的作曲家，在两次世界大战的比利时靠虚荣心谋生;他是里根州长所在的加州一位品格高尚的记者;一个虚荣的出版商逃离他的黑帮债权人;一个被判死刑的转基因“餐厅服务员”;还有年轻的太平洋岛民Zachry，他见证了科学与文明的黄昏——《云图》的叙述者在历史的走廊里听到彼此的回声，他们的命运在大大小小的方面发生了改变。在大卫•米切尔非凡的第三部小说中，他抹去了语言、体裁和时间的界限，对人类对权力的危险意志以及它可能会把我们引向何处进行了思考。

A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation - the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.

作者简介

大卫·米切尔的小说《代写》于1999年出版。这本书被英国《星期日邮报》(Mail on Sunday)和约翰·卢埃林·里斯(John Llewellyn Rhys)评为35岁以下作家的作品，还入围了英国《卫报》首届图书奖。2001年，他的第二部小说《NUMBER9DREAM》入围布克奖(Booker Prize)和詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克(James Tait Black)纪念奖。2003年，大卫·米切尔被评为英国青年小说家。他也从日本回到了英国，他在日本待了几年，现在住在爱尔兰。

David Mitchells first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was published in 1999. It was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best book by a writer under thirty-five, and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM, followed in 2001 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Grantas Best of Young British Novelists. He also returned to Britain from Japan, where he spent several years, and now lives in Ireland.