Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
David Mitchell
KORTE INHOUD
Six interlocking lives - one amazing adventure. In a narrative that circles the globe and reaches from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, Cloud Atlas 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.
The first thing to say is that this is a big book – not just in terms of number of pages, but also in terms of its scope and breadth of genres. The novel has a very ambitious structure: it comprises six separate stories, with each one being split in half and nested within the others, rather like the way Russian dolls are nested within one another. Plus each story is set in a different time-frame, with its own set of characters and unique narrative style. So we end up reading in the one book, a mid-nineteenth century sea voyage, a thriller, a modern comedy, a science fiction tale and a post-apocalyptic story. And each one is interrupted, mid-flow by one of the others. It’s an interesting idea and – surprisingly – it ...
The first thing to say is that this is a big book – not just in terms of number of pages, but also in terms of its scope and breadth of genres. The novel has a very ambitious structure: it comprises six separate stories, with each one being split in half and nested within the others, rather like the way Russian dolls are nested within one another. Plus each story is set in a different time-frame, with its own set of characters and unique narrative style. So we end up reading in the one book, a mid-nineteenth century sea voyage, a thriller, a modern comedy, a science fiction tale and a post-apocalyptic story. And each one is interrupted, mid-flow by one of the others. It’s an interesting idea and – surprisingly – it ...
