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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is now a major motion picture.
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 civilization — 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 captivating 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.