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Cloud Atlas

byDavid Mitchell

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy complex narratives that intertwine multiple genres and explore deep philosophical themes.

Topics Civilization collapseEchoes of the pastAmbition and consequencesFate and destinyTime travelInterconnected livesPower dynamicsMulticulturalismMoral choicesHuman natureFate and FatalismIdentitySurvivalHuman NatureHope
MoodReflective, Mysterious, Bittersweet
RomanceMinor Subplot
ViolenceMild
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies . . . A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850. A disinherited composer conning his way into the home of a dying genius in interwar Belgium.A high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California. A vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors. The testament of 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 along the corridor of history - echoes that change destinies in ways great and small. In a globe-encircling narrative reaching from the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us. Please note that p. 40 is intentionally blank

Language

en

Published on

04/11/2024

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9781399725996

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