01837cam a2200217 a 4500 PH-MaWHO PH-MaWHO 20241108112740.0 031204s2004 nyu 000 1 eng 0345404793 070999007991 DLC WPRO Library DLC Mitchell, David (David Stephen) 675003 Cloud atlas / London : Sceptre, c2004. 529 pages ; 22 cm. 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. Fate and fatalism Fiction. 675004 Reincarnation Fiction. 675005 Fantasy fiction. gsafd 674671 17853 17853 0 0 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 1 FIC MIT Cloud FIC0076 2026-06-24 08:48:21 2026-06-24 MONO