Cloud Atlas

a novel

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David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas (2004, Random House Trade Paperbacks)

509 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2004 by Random House Trade Paperbacks.

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978-0-375-50725-0
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Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. It was published in 2004. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy "Book of the Year" award. The year it was published, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Arthur C. Clarke Award, among other accolades. Unusually, it received awards from both the general literary community and from the speculative fiction community. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012. Cloud Atlas is a work combining metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction. Its text is 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. The title was inspired by the piece of music of the same …

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Weiss nicht so recht was ich damit anfangen soll

3 stars

Mehrere lose zusammenhängende Geschichten die zu verschiedenen Zeiten spielen. Ein Großteil davon eigentlich recht interessant - aber am Ende steht man planlos da und fragt sich was der Autor eigentlich sagen wollte. Und dazu dann noch ein ganzer Abschnitt in einem sehr anstrengendem Stil geschrieben - Keine Ahnung ob der Teil nur in der Übersetzung so schlimm ist.

(btw: Hab den Film davon noch nicht gesehen)

Subjects

  • Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
  • Reincarnation -- Fiction