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It is a tourdeforce through six stories, each story with its own genre, creating a multigenre whole unlike any work ive read before. Published in 2004, the fantastical speculative fiction book consists of six interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote south pacific in the nineteenth century to the island of hawaii in a distant postapocalyptic future. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Mitchell described it as a sort of pointillist mosaic. Owned goodreads buy on amazon this is an affiliate link you can use to purchase the book. Cloud atlas by david mitchell awesome book assessment. Cloud atlas ought to make mitchell famous on both sides of the atlantic as a writer whose fearlessness is matched by his talent. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 529 pages and is available in paperback format. David mitchell from david mitchell, the booker prize nominee, awardwinning writer, and one of the featured authors in grantas best of young british novelists 2003 issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel. Using as a framework micea eliades wellknown philosophical treatise, the myth of the eternal return, the essay demonstrates that mitchells preoccupation with cyclical temporality can be understood as a reaction against.
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