David Mitchell

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• Cloud Atlas

  Written in English

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  Booker 2004 · Shortlist

  Cloud Atlas

  Cloud Atlas

  David Mitchell · 35 when first published

  Novel · 528 pages · Speculative, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:Six linked lives, from an unwilling voyager on the Pacific in 1850 to a young islander who sees civilisation fall far in the future, echo through one another across time and genre.

• number9dream

  Written in English

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  Booker 2001 · Shortlist

  number9dream

  number9dream

  David Mitchell · 32 when first published

  Novel · 418 pages · Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Young Eiji Miyake leaves his island home in rural Japan for Tokyo to track down the father he has never met, and stumbles into a city where dreams, games and gangland violence blur.