01957cam a2200229 a 4500003000900000003000900009005001700018008004100035020001500076020001700091040002700108100004500135245001800180264003100198300002400229520122000253650004001473650003601513655003601549999001701585952012501602PH-MaWHOPH-MaWHO20241108112740.0031204s2004    nyu           000 1 eng    a0345404793  a070999007991  aDLCcWPRO LibrarydDLC1 aMitchell, Davidq(David Stephen)967500310aCloud atlas /  aLondon :bSceptre,cc2004.  a529 pages ;c22 cm.  aCloud 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. 0aFate and fatalismvFiction.9675004 0aReincarnationvFiction.9675005 7aFantasy fiction.2gsafd9674671  c17853d17853  001040708FICaWPRObWPROcMezd2024-07-05edonationl1oFIC MIT CloudpFIC0076r2026-06-24 08:48:21s2026-06-24yMONO