«Tremendous . . . one of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable»
Spectator
Kundevurdering:
David Mitchell har skrevet et mesterverk av en roman, hvor sjangre og tidsepoker er vevd sammen på nydelig vis. En roman til ettertanke, hvor seks ulike historier og skjebner nesten garantert kan få enhver leser på kroken. Denne anbefales på det sterkeste!Ingvild Hegge Eriksen, praktikant i Bokklubben
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, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.
In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.
He lives in Ireland.
«Tremendous . . . one of the most shamelessly exciting books imaginable»
Spectator
«Stunning . . . One of those rare books that manages to be enormously clever while resisting the temptation to show off»
Daily Mail
«This isn't just one brilliant book, it's a collection of six completely different brilliant books»
Sunday Independent
«Mind-bogglingly good»
Elle
«Reassuringly excellent»
Times Literary Supplement
«Engrossing»
Financial Times
«Mitchell writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel's every page»
New York Times Book Review
«One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is - and should be - read by any student of contemporary literature»
Dave Eggers
«Astonishing . . . essential fiction for the 21st century»
Independent
«Not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I've never read anything quite like it»
Michael Chabon
«Mitchell's almost comically ambitious novel is indeed a kind of cumulus: a wild and woolly condensation of ideas, styles and far-flung milieus whose only true commonality is the reincarnated soul at its center. The book's six nesting narratives - from 1850s New Zealand through 1930s Belgium, groovy California, recent-ish England, dystopian Korea and Hawaii - also often feel like a postmodern puzzle-box that whirls and clicks as its great world(s) spin, throwing off sparks of pulp, philosophy and fervid humanism»
100 best books of the 21st century, New York Times
«Remarkable . . . it knits together science fiction, political thriller and historical pastiche with musical virtuosity and linguistic exuberance»
Guardian
«An impeccable dance of genres . . . an elegiac, radiant festival of prescience, meditation and entertainment»
The Times
«His wildest ride yet . . . a singular achievement, from an author of extraordinary ambition and skill»
Independent on Sunday
«A magnificent tour de force»
Time Out
«An intense, arcing colossus of a book whose narrative links, supplied by the voices of six main characters, are spun out into a unified theory of everything: history, human evolution, science, the will to power. The voices span epochs, continents, and genres . . . Mitchell has rightly commanded attention for the sheer breadth and energy of his composition . . . I am moved by (his) talent»
Prospect
«It takes only a few pages of any part of this masterful feast of a novel to make you want to read the rest»
Evening Standard
«David Mitchell may well be possessed of genius . . . As well-plotted, entertaining narrative, Cloud Atlas succeeds on many levels. As political and cultural fable, with an unerring humanist sense of the dangerous will to power that lies at the dark heart of man, it's visionary»
Irish Independent
«As mind-bending in its ideas as it is accessible on the page . . . It pretty much resists hyperbole simply by being better than you'd ever dare hope»
Big Issue
«An impeccably structured novel of ideas in many voices»
Literary Editor's Best Books, Observer
«The way Mitchell inhabits the different voices of the novel is close to miraculous . . . No other British novelist, to my mind, combines such a darkly futuristic intelligence with such polyphonic ease»
Robert Macfarlane, Sunday Times
«A virtuoso performance . . . deeply impressive»
Daily Telegraph
– David Mitchell har skrevet et mesterverk av en roman, hvor sjangre og tidsepoker er vevd sammen på nydelig vis. En roman til ettertanke, hvor seks ulike historier og skjebner nesten garantert kan få enhver leser på kroken. Denne anbefales på det sterkeste!
– Boka består av seks historier, som fører oss fra 1800-tallet og opp gjennom historien, forbi sivilisasjonens fall. Jeg vil ikke røpe hvordan disse historiene henger sammen, det er en glede intelligente lesere skal få fornøyelsen av å oppdage selv. Boka utforsker så forskjellige problemstillinger om kloning, kjærlighet, miljøpolitikk, godt og ondt, begynnelse og slutt, og framfor alt menneskeverd. Dette gjøres uten at det blir pretensiøst. David Mitchell er en for dyktig historieforteller til det. Cloud Atlas stiller, som Mitchells to andre bøker, spørsmålet om hva som er virkelig og hva som ikke er det, samtidig som vi oppfordres til å tenke Spiller det egentlig noen rolle? Cloud Atlas er ikke helt på høyde med forfatterens foregående bøker, men er absolutt å anbefale. Svært god og stimulerende lesning.