Cold Atlas is the fifth novel by David Mitchell I have had the pleasure of reading. For sure it is the most challenging, highest retarded of his works. There are six story lines in Cold Atlas. The reader's first challenge is to ascertain what these stories of six different people in widely diverse places and times have to do with each other and how they work together. (Wikipedia has a good summary article.)
I am behind in my posting so this post is going to be very brief.
Please share your experience with David Mitchell with us.
DAVID MITCHELL is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children. davidmitchellbooks.com Facebook.com/ davidmitchellbooks Twitter: @david_mitchell
I hope to read Number9Dream in May.
For no good reason, I had the idea that I wouldn't enjoy Number9Dream as much (maybe because so many more people talk about Cloud Atlas), but I really liked it. Afterwards, I felt like the world was full of NINES. Everywhere, nines.
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