### From Publishers Weekly At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Like Mitchell's previous works, *Ghostwritten* and *number9dream* (which was shortlist
Cloud Atlas
β Scribed by Mitchell, David
- Publisher
- Hachette Littlehampton
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 460 KB
- Edition
- Canadian First
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies Six interlocking lives one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of time, genre and language to offer an enthralling vision of humanity's will to power, and where it will lead us.
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****Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed byLanaand AndyWachowski and Tom Tykwer 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
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