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| Original Title: | Cloud Atlas |
| ISBN: | 0375507256 (ISBN13: 9780375507250) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Adam Ewing, Autua, Dr. Goose, Robert Frobisher, Rufus Sixsmith, Vyvyan Ayrs, Jocasta Ayrs, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Luisa Rey, Timothy Cavendish, Sonmi~451, Zachry, Meronym, Hae-Joo Im, Mr. Meeks, Ernie Blacksmith, Nurse Noakes, Javier Gomez, Fay Li, Bill Smoke, Joe Napier, Yoona-939, Isaac Sachs, Old Georgie |
| Setting: | Chatham Islands(New Zealand) Neerbeke, West Vlaanderen(Belgium) Buenas Yerbas(United States) …more London, England Seoul, South Korea(Korea, Republic of) Maui, Hawaii(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2004), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2005), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2005), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2004) British Book Award for Best Read of the Year (2005), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2004), Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (2005), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2009), The Rooster -- The Morning News Tournament of Books (2005) |
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A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.
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| Title | : | Cloud Atlas |
| Author | : | David Mitchell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 1st paperback edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 509 pages |
| Published | : | August 17th 2004 by Random House (first published March 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Drama. Suspense. Noir |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 204412 Users | 18754 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books Cloud Atlas
This is definitely a book that is richer with rereading, but I still prefer his "Ghostwritten" (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...), which has significant echoes of this. STRUCTUREIts often described as a matryoshka doll or a turducken, but thats not the best analogy, imo. Imagine six very different short books, each open at roughly the middle, then pile them up - and that is the structure of Cloud Atlas (story 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6, 5b, 4b, 3b, 2b, 1b). The structure is echoed in this3 conflicted stars !Gosh I struggled with this book.Is this book well written? No doubt about it.Is this book overwritten and too stylized? At times, yes it was.Were the stories wonderfully original? Yes they were.Did the stories fail to move me? Alas, they did.This was the main crux of the matter. The stories did not resonate with me one bit. At times I could enjoy them but I found them so empty and unsatisfying. These stories were intellectually brilliant but emotionally bankrupt. (there I
One morning while reading Cloud Atlas I was leafing through The Lie that Tells the Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction by John Dufresne and I opened to a page talking about how you have to leave room in a book for the readers to do some of the work. The readers need to fill in some of the gaps. According to Dufresne, this isn't just some advice that a writer can't give every piece of minutiae in a book, because that will make it unreadable, but also that readers want to put in some of the work. It
At the Museum of Science in Boston, there is an exhibit just outside the doors of the Planetarium that demonstratesthrough a series of adjacent panelsthe scale of the Earth in relation to the universe at large. The first panel shows the Earths location in the Solar System (as a microscopic dot, mind you), which is followed by a second panel showing the Solar Systems location in the Milky Way (also microscopic). The third panel is of the galaxys location in its Supercluster or whateverthefuck its
(DISCLAIMER: This review was my knee-jerk reaction right after reading the book. Since then my admiration for CA has diminished. I will let the original review stay as it is. I disown this review though.)WOW. With my vocab-deficit, I can't find the perfect word to express how reading Cloud Atlas felt. I will put spectacular as a placeholder. It has been quite some time since I read something this exciting.So. The thing about Cloud Atlas is that everything explaining the central theme of the
Cloud Atlas is a book which is not particularly easy to read, requires patience and perseverance, but is ultimately very rewarding. It is a story spanning more than one hundred years that combines an entertaining - even humourous - plot with far bigger and more important issues like slavery and exploitation. The novel's language changes and develops with time and every new character introduced is as fresh and interesting as all those who came before. In the end, it is pure genius. It is also not
Tomorrow I will never see, though I have no wings I fly free. Of what I dream no one can know, I am but a container for a rainbow.Stories are clouds The same story told by a different raconteur changes form and it may also change a meaning.I watched clouds awobbly from the floor o that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an tho a clouds shape nor hue nor size dont stay the same, its still a cloud an so is a soul. Who can say where the clouds blowed from or who the soulll be morrow?
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