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Cloud Atlas

By (author): David Mitchell
Published by: Sceptre
Publication date: 21/Feb/2005
Format: Paperback - 544 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 199 x 129 x 34
ISBN-10: 0340822783
ISBN-13: 9780340822784
Categories:
> General & Literary Fiction

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'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.