An intricately woven novel Cloud Atlas takes the stories of six characters from different spans of time and interlinks them in an unforgettable vision of each person’s effect on the future. Join Adam Ewing in the 1800s, Robert Frobisher in the 1930s, Luisa Rey in the 1970s, Timothy Cavendish in the present day, Sonmi-451 and Zachry in a dystopian future as they battle to unravel the mysteries of the Cloud Atlas Sextet.
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A philosophy that Mitchell seems to aspire to is one that is outlined in Voltaire's seminal work Candide (1759): namely, that we become better people...
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