Hillis Miller observes: A long work like. From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.Ī reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850 a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium an ambitious journalist in Governor Reagan’s California a vanity publisher fleeing the mendicant and violent family of his star author 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. Keywords: David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, repetition, historical cycle, eternal recurrence.
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