Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell · 2004
Literary Fiction · ranked #96 in category
Six narratives nested inside each other like Russian dolls — spanning 1850 to a post-apocalyptic future — tell connected stories of exploitation, resistance and survival. Mitchell's formally ambitious novel is both a meditation on time, history and human cruelty, and a demonstration of what the novel can structurally achieve.
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