'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.
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 | Review
by: Arwen S.
Surprising and beautiful. Cloud Atlas is one of the most breath-taking works of fiction that I have read.
Taking pieces from lives scattered through the centuries, it weaves them together into one seemless panorama of scenes and themes from historical to science fiction. It could have been a train wreck but is elegant, thoughtful and wholly original.
It's only flaw is that it becomes a little harder to read at the middle, due to the slang used and therefore slows the story somewhat but once you are through it is a bobsled to the end.
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