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Cloud atlas : a novel / David Mitchell.
Weaves history, science, suspense, humor & pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose style, each is broken off mid-action and brought to conclusion in the second half of the book. Among the volume's most engaging story lines is a witty 1930s-era chronicle, via letters, of a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer & a hilarious account of a modern-day vanity publisher who is institutionalized by a stroke and plans a madcap escape in order to return to his literary empire (such as it is).
Record details
- ISBN: 9780676974942 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0676974945 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 509 p. ; 22 cm. : ill.
- Edition: Vintage Canada ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2004.
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| Subject: | Good and evil > Fiction. Réincarnation > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Roman fantastique. Reincarnation > Fiction. Destin et fatalisme > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Fate and fatalism > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Postmodern fiction. Experimental fiction. Epistolary fiction. Short stories. |
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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 Reaganâs California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified âdinery serverâ on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation â the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each otherâs echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanityâs dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
