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Cloud Atlas : A Novel by David Mitchell, David Mitchell is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cloud Atlas : A Novel about?
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.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. Six stories echo and impact on each other, and that together point to a terrifying vision of the future."Hopscotching over centuries, Cloud Atlas likewise jumps in and out of half a dozen different styles, all of which display the author's astonishing talent for ventriloquism, and end up fitting together to make this a highly satisfying, and unusually thoughtful, addition to the expanding ‘puzzle book’ genre...but the puzzle of Cloud Atlas isn't in the book, it is the book ... What all these stories have in common is that each draws its lifeblood from the same heart of darkness. Cloud Atlas is a work of fiction, ultimately, about the myriad misuses of
Who reads Cloud Atlas : A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- David Mitchell, David Mitchell
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307483041
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (11,168 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14