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The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai'i in a distant post-apocalyptic future.
- David Stephen Mitchell
- 2004
Apr 10, 2024 · Mitchell purposefully interrupts each of the stories to begin the next, and civilisation - as we know it - ends in the middle of the novel, only for the author to pick up with a post-apocalyptic vision of the future, allowing him to conclude each tale.
My favorite chapter has to be "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", partially just because post-apocalyptic Hawaii is a great setting for a story, but also because I found the relationship and conversations between Zachary and Meronym to be totally fascinating.
Mar 1, 2004 · Cloud Atlas is historical fiction, it is a dark comedy, it is a crime thriller, it is science fiction, it is a post-apocalyptic dystopia. The middle chapter, while the most difficult to read, is easily my favorite.
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Cloud Atlas is a polyphonic compendium of interlacing but nonlinear parables. Divided into six different accounts spanning several centuries, Mitchell ranges from the journal of a 19th-century American notary to the post-apocalyptic memoir of a herdsman, Zachry.
Mar 16, 2023 · The six stories of Cloud Atlas cover six different time periods spanning the 19 th century to the contemporary world to a post-apocalyptic future. We begin in the mid-nineteenth century. Adam Ewing is crossing the Pacific on a journey home to San Francisco.
May 3, 2010 · David Mitchell’s experimental novel, Cloud Atlas, confronts the potentially apocalyptic effects of both linear and cyclical modes of temporality.
