
Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that ci rcles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalypti c future, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of time, genre and lang uage to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and w here it will 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 Califo rnia; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Is lander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation - the narr ators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of his tory, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the...
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