Cloud Atlas

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Synopsis
'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.
Copyright:
2004

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
512 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780307483041
Publisher:
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
David Mitchell
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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At first I didn't care for the book, but then I got into it and was fascinated by the concept--and the book is very well-written. One doesn't get emotionally involved with the characters. Using music as a comparison, I'd say it's more like Bach than Tchaikovsky or Beethoven, at least for me, i.e., reading it is more intellectual than emotional. But I found it fascinating, as did my daughter and her friend. Cindy Rosenthal