CLOUD ATLAS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540004B07822
English Summary/英文概要： ’Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies ...’
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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 大胆、眼花缭乱、自命不凡、又让人咬牙切齿，Mitchell 的第三本小说叙述了六个独立却又有着千丝万缕联系的故事， 小说中既含盖了历史又涉及了科学理论，悬念、幽默和感伤交织其中。就像Mitchell前几本小说《代笔》，《第九个梦》（这本书被选为布克奖的候选作品）一样， 他这本最新出击的小说，情节结构极其复杂眩目，充分展示了作者在文学题材处理上独到的鉴别力。每一个故事都被设置在不同的时间段和地点场所，他们是以不同的文体书写的，而且每一个又会在进行到一半时戛然而止，然后会在此书的后半部分得以结束。而书中最引人入胜的故事之一就是以书信方式、编年体体裁讲述上世纪三十年代一位年轻的音乐人孜孜不倦的为一位双目失明的知名作曲家做口述记录员的故事。还有一个有趣、几近荒唐的故事，讲述了一位当代的出版商，他极度自负、虚荣，但后来因中风而被迫住进了福利机构，生活受到了制约。为了重返他的文学王国，他策划了一场近乎疯狂的逃跑“阴谋”。Mitchell表达想法的能力甚至让人想到了David Foster Wallace，当然他的口技中间歇性的空洞多少有点让人失望。但无论如何，对那些喜欢把这本小说当迷团来欣赏的读者来说一定会觉得这本原汁原味甚至有趣的作品回味无穷。
Awards/获奖情况：*CLOUD ATLAS was shortlisted for the Booker Prize again last year (NUMBER 9 DREAM was also short-listed a couple of yeras ago). David was also on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list along with authors such as Hari Kunzru, Sarah Waters, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali and Alan Warner. David won Literary Fiction Book of the Year for CLOUD ATLAS and he also won the Richard and Judy Best Read, Richard and Judy run a bookclub on their tv probramme, a little like the Oprah bookclub and winning the prize means a huge increase in sales.
About the Author/作者介绍： David Mitchell was born in 1969 and his first novel, Ghostwritten, was published by Sceptre in 1999 to great acclaim and won the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, number9dream (2001) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. He was chosen as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists 2003. David was born in Southport, Lancashire, lived in Hiroshima for eight years and now lives in the west of Ireland. Cloud Atlas will be published by Sceptre in March 2003.
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