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Cloud atlas a novel

In this audacious and dazzling novel, Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense through six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place, each written in a different prose style, and each broken mid-action only to be concluded in the second half of the book. One of the more engaging stories is set in 1930s and told via letters describing a young musician's effort to become an amanuenisis for a renowned, blind composer ... Another focuses on a book editor who finds himself accidentally imprisoned in a home for the elderly.

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  • "In this audacious and dazzling novel, Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense through six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place, each written in a different prose style, and each broken mid-action only to be concluded in the second half of the book. One of the more engaging stories is set in 1930s and told via letters describing a young musician's effort to become an amanuenisis for a renowned, blind composer ... Another focuses on a book editor who finds himself accidentally imprisoned in a home for the elderly."
  • "In this audacious and dazzling novel, Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense through six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place, each written in a different prose style, and each broken mid-action only to be concluded in the second half of the book. One of the more engaging stories is set in 1930s and told via letters describing a young musician's effort to become an amanuenisis for a renowned, blind composer ... Another focuses on a book editor who finds himself accidentally imprisoned in a home for the elderly."@en
  • "Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense through six separate but related narratives, all set in different times and places, and written in various prose styles, and each broken mid-action to be concluded in the second half of the book. One of the stories is set in 1930s and told via letters describing a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer. Another focuses on a book editor who finds himself imprisoned in a home for the elderly."
  • "Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense in six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place."
  • "Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense in six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place."@en
  • "A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850, and a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization - these and the other narrators of 'Cloud atlas' hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. Strong language. 2004."@en
  • "Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of the world and where humanity's will might take us. 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 modifed 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachary, a young Pacific Islander witnessing thenightfall of science and civilisation - the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridors of history and their destinies and changed in ways great and small."@en
  • "Cloud atlas combines the stories of six individuals to create a masterful whole: the morality and ambitions of 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. Their lives echo and impact on each other's stories down the corridor of history and point to a terrifying vision of the world's future, which challenges our ability to shape not only our destiny but that of those that will come after us."@en

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  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
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  • "Adventure stories"@en
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  • "Cloud atlas a novel"
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  • "Cloud atlas [a novel]"
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  • "Cloud Atlas"

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