A modern classic, a monumental masterpiece that, like many of Mitchell’s books, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2012, the novel was filmed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski brothers (starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw, Hugo Weaving, Susan Sarandon), becoming, with a budget of over $ 100 million, the most expensive independent film in history of cinema.
The Cloud Atlas is like a mirror maze in which six voices overlap each other: a notary in the mid-nineteenth century returning to the United States from Australia; a young composer forced to trade body and soul in Europe between the world wars; a journalist in 1970s California exposing a corporate conspiracy; a small publisher — our contemporary, who managed to break the bank on the bandit autobiography Blow with Knuckle Dusters and flee from creditors; clone servants from a fast food establishment in Korea — the country of the victorious cyberpunk; and the Hawaiian goat herder at the end of civilization.
David Mitchell
CLOUD ATLAS
Copyright © 2004 by David Mitchell
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© G. Yaropolsky, translated into Russian
language, 2012
© A. Guzman, notes, 2016
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