Cloud Atlas: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “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, New York Times bestselling author

• “[Mitchell’s] language crackles with texture and bite.”

  — Time

• “[Mitchell’s] most audacious work…A wild, wonderful ride.”

  — Newsweek

• “Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He 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 the biggest joys in Cloud Atlas is watching Mitchell sashay from genre to genre without a hitch in his dance step.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Cloud Atlas ought to make [Mitchell] famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “Revolutionary…Cloud Atlas brilliantly puzzles out the way things might not have been.”

  — Newsday

• “Astonishing…The way Mitchell inhabits the different voices is close to miraculous.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “[Cloud Atlas] glows with a fizzy, dizzy energy, pregnant with possibility, and whispering in your ear: Listen closely to a story, any story, and you’ll hear another story inside it, eager to meet the world.”

  — Village Voice

• “Audacious, sprawling, preposterously ambitious…Next time someone suggests that The Novel is endangered, hit him with this one. Hard.”

  — San Diego Union-Tribune

• “A remarkable book…It knits together science fiction, political thriller, and historical pastiche with musical virtuosity and linguistic exuberance.”

  — Evening Standard (London)

• “[Mitchell’s] exuberant, Nabokovian delight in word play; his provocative grapplings with the great unknowables; and most of all his masterful storytelling: All coalesce to make Cloud Atlas an exciting, almost overwhelming masterpiece.”

  — Washington Times

• “Stunning…Mitchell has a gift with language. [His] exploration of power and greed is riveting.”

  — Rocky Mountain News

• “[Like] Haruki Murakami, Mitchell mixes highbrow concerns with pulp content for maximum reading pleasure.”

  — Details

• “Cloud Atlas is such an astounding feat that it’s tempting to think there must be several David Mitchells, each of whom wrote one part of this book.”

  — BookPage

• “Sheer storytelling brilliance. Mitchell really is his generation’s Pynchon.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• [David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He 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.

  — The 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

• Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative.

  — People

• The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet—not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I’ve never read anything quite like it, and I’m grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds.

  — Michael Chabon

• Cloud Atlas ought to make [Mitchell] famous on both sides of the Atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent.

  — The Washington Post Book World

• Thrilling . . . One of the biggest joys in Cloud Atlas is watching Mitchell sashay from genre to genre without a hitch in his dance step.

  — Boston Sunday Globe

• Grand and elaborate . . . [Mitchell] creates a world and language at once foreign and strange, yet strikingly familiar and intimate.

  — Los Angeles Times