05310cam a2200961 4500 577437996 TxAuBib 20220711120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307483041 0307483045 B000SEGUDE Amazon 00659b28-5e1f-44a7-9572-b0093c880281 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 205422 OverDrive (Product ID) 115430 115430 115430 TxAuBib Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2008. English. dystopian. 21st century. epistolary. future. literary fiction. Postmodernism. slipstream. Historical. futuristic. experimental. reincarnation. hawaii. British. post-apocalyptic. California. time. speculative fiction. Korea. Epic. postmodern. Historical Fiction. mystery. Slavery. England. Adventure. Science Fiction. Thriller. Belgium. uk. History. dystopia. Music. sci-fi. sf. English literature. literature. fantasy. 2000s. Literary. metafiction. Booker Prize shortlist. new york times best sellers. best sellers list new york times. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5065kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love 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 profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, 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. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Man Booker Prize for Fiction Nominee. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-11 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/006/59B/28/CloudAtlas9780307483041.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/cloud-atlas-00659b?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/006/59B/28/CloudAtlas9780307483041.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/cloud-atlas-00659b?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/006/59B/28/CloudAtlas9780307483041.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/cloud-atlas-00659b?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)