Cloud Atlas
Recommended by Robert Eaglestone, The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and 2 others. See all reviewsRanked #3 in Atlas, Ranked #4 in Reincarnation — see more rankings.
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.
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Reviews and Recommendations
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Robert Eaglestone In this novel, you find stories that interlock like Russian dolls…an obvious example of a writer learning clever postmodern tricks, but domesticating them. (Source)
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk This is the perfect book if you want to read about human extinction but you still need to be ‘seduced’ into it. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Cloud Atlas is ranked in the following categories:
- #24 in 21st Century
- #88 in Adaptation
- #8 in Calculus
- #83 in Existential
- #13 in Hawaii
- #40 in Literary
- #97 in Mindfuck
- #55 in Modern
- #48 in Modern Fiction
- #39 in New Zealand
- #34 in Postmodernism
- #88 in Recent
- #30 in Surrealism
- #85 in Time
- #75 in Weird
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