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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Paperback, 2005)
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Author : Mitchell, David. Dust cover is intact and pages are clean and not marred by notes. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the YearProduct Identifiers
PublisherSceptre, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
ISBN-100340822783
ISBN-139780340822784
eBay Product ID (ePID)92126941
Product Key Features
Book TitleCloud Atlas
AuthorDavid Mitchell
FormatB-Format Paperback, Paperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral Fiction
Publication Year2005
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Number of Pages544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height197mm
Item Width138mm
Weight361g
Height197mm
Width130mm
Item Weight376g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDavid Mitchell
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 16. Jun. 2022
A very important book for the modern era. Highly recommended.
This is an interesting, if challenging, book with a very important message for the twenty-first century. Six stories are interwoven in a manner reminiscent of Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller …” as each, apart from the sixth, is interrupted and later resumed in a palindromic form. They range in chronological order from the mid-nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future and combine historical narrative, romance, political corruption, environmental catastrophe, science fiction and moral philosophy, each being linked to its predecessor. For example, Sixsmith, the recipient of Robert Frobisher’s letters in the second story, is a key figure in the third. An appropriate variety of literary genres and language is employed to match the content. The Pacific journal of Adam Ewing reflects the language and syntax of William Makepeace Thackeray, “Letters from Zedelghem” is redolent of Eric Fenby’s “Delius as I Knew Him”, “The First Luisa Rey Mystery” resembles a somewhat incredible but exciting James Bond film (very different from the deeper books of Ian Fleming), while “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After” combines Alex’s patois from “A Clockwork Orange” with the restricted vocabulary of many participants in modern Radio 4 programmes. The dystopian future depicted is not unlike that of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World “with a touch of Karel Kapek’s “RUR”. A major theme throughout is that unfettered consumerism, seen by government in “An Orison of Sonmi-451” as the key to progress, together with acceptance of the “physikos aner” doctrine of the first book of Plato’s “Republic” (which is best summed up on p. 508 and again on p.524 with the words: “The weak are meat, the strong do eat”) spells environmental and social disaster for the human race. Indeed, in all the stories we are confronted with the dichotomy of oppressors and oppressed in the style of Paulo Freire. The Christian missionaries on the Pacific islands exploit the natives in the most brutal fashion, capitalists in high places employ murderers to eliminate any citizens who are in a position to expose their crimes, and even the aged inmates of a residential home are bullied by the very staff employed to safeguard their welfare. The book concludes with the salutary warning that any society based upon these predatory principles will consume itself; humanity must transcend the tooth and claw world if it is to have a future. The political events of 2022 merely reinforce the wisdom of this message. My only slight disappointment was that Mitchell did not develop further his references to metempsychosis and the concept of the recurrence of history associated with the Stoic philosophers and Nietzsche.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 30. Aug. 2017
Absorbing and complex novel
All David Mitchell's books are excellent, this was the first one I read. At times perplexing and confusing, you will soon find yourself trying to read faster to delve through the many layers.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 22. Apr. 2021
Can't put it down!
Awesome book.cant put it down.! I would recommend reading the book before watching the film which is also very goodBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 27. Jan. 2021
Exactly as stated
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- 03. Feb. 2021
Must read.
Highly imaginative and absorbing (long) read, although ultimately taking a depressing view of the human condition, taking you through the past, present and future of humanity.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 13. Mai. 2024
Purchase cancelled
Purchase cancelledBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
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