Cloud Atlas (original Movie of the Same Name Starring Tom Hanks)

About This Novel

★The Wachowski siblings ("The Matrix") and Tom Tykwer ("Perfume") co-direct the film adaptation! ★Selected as "Best Novel of the New Millennium" ★Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award, Clark Award ★British National Book Award for Best Novel ★Charlie and Judy Book Club Annual Book Selection★A. S. Byatt, Michael Chabon, Su Tong, Han Song Recommended ★ Popular in Britain and the United States The million-selling novel, the genius writer's "craziest move" ★The soul travels through time and space, like clouds covering the sky★Six connected lives, a breathtaking adventure, a charming and magnificent picture, inspiring a new round of thinking about human nature, history and civilization! ★Break through the constraints of novel style, plot and technique, shock the two fields of pure literature and fantasy literature, and let your imagination soar! Cloud Atlas - images of cloud cover at different scales and changing surface features on the Earth. "Cloud Atlas" is as its name suggests. It consists of six interlocking stories, spanning from the 19th century to the post-apocalyptic era, affecting all parts of the world - around 1850, in the Pacific Ocean, people suffering from parasitic diseases American notary Adam Ewing returned home from the Chatham Islands by ship and witnessed a shocking scene during the voyage. In 1931, the penniless young British composer Robert Frobisher experienced many loves and hates under the tutelage of a music master in Sydelgem, Belgium; in 1975, Buenas, California, USA ·Jerbas, tabloid reporter Louisa Ray took great risks to investigate corruption and hired murders in the nuclear power plant project; at the beginning of the 21st century, in the United Kingdom, publisher Timothy Cavendish, who was hunted by the underworld, was under house arrest in a nursing home and suffered terribly; in the future of the dystopian era, Neso Country, Song Ji Meal The clone attendant Xingmei-451 resists the society that creates and exploits clone groups; in the post-apocalyptic future, in Hawaii, Zachary, a shepherd boy who lost his father, meets the survivors of high-tech civilization by chance... The six protagonists may be the incarnation of the same soul, but they are stamped with completely different birthmarks. The treacherous storyline is intertwined with the eternal human nature, forming a gorgeous cloud picture. David Mitchell is a famous British writer and a new generation of novel master recognized by European and American literary circles. Born in Worcestershire, England in 1969, he majored in English and American Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. He worked as an English teacher for engineering students in Hiroshima, Japan for eight years. Mitchell draws heavily on the works of Haruki Murakami, Auster, Calvino, and Borges, and forms his own school. His works are erratic and full of aura. Seven novels have been published: "Ghostwriter", "Dream No. 9", "Cloud Atlas", "Black Swan of Oz", "The Life of Jacob DeZote", "The Bone Clock" and "Slade Mansion". Mitchell's novel is full of originality and opens up a new model and style for English novels in the 21st century. In 2007, he was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine for his outstanding literary achievements.

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