Called simply “a genius” in the New York Times Book Review and named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, David Mitchell was twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novels Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas. His other works include Black Swan Green, Ghostwritten, and the historical novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet –“a formidable marvel” (The New Yorker). Acclaimed for its adept braiding of six narratives that each evoked a different fiction genre, the ambitious Cloud Atlas was adapted into a popular 2012 film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. Mitchell’s new novel continues in this kaleidoscopic style, interweaving several points of view in a tale of disappearance, mysticism, and grace.