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Book Review of Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas
Author: David Mitchell
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Very hard to describe the contents, as it's very original in style.

"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 âdinery serverâ 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."