Cloud Atlas - Kirjakasa

529 sivua, 544 pages

English language

Published Sept. 9, 2004 by Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre.

ISBN:: 978-0-340-82278-4
Finna ID:: heili.277fc031-e972-4697-bbed-d22354975fd0

Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. It was published in 2004. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy "Book of the Year" award. The year it was published, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Arthur C. Clarke Award, among other accolades. Unusually, it received awards from both the general literary community and from the speculative fiction community. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012. Cloud Atlas is a work combining metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction. Its text is interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai'i in a distant post-apocalyptic future. The title was inspired by the piece of music of the same …

Cloud Atlas is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. It was published in 2004. It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award and the Richard & Judy "Book of the Year" award. The year it was published, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize, Nebula Award for Best Novel, and Arthur C. Clarke Award, among other accolades. Unusually, it received awards from both the general literary community and from the speculative fiction community. A film adaptation directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and featuring an ensemble cast, was released in 2012. Cloud Atlas is a work combining metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction. Its text is interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai'i in a distant post-apocalyptic future. The title was inspired by the piece of music of the same name by Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi. The author has said that the book is about reincarnation and the universality of human nature, and the title references a changing landscape (a "cloud") over manifestations of fixed human nature (the "atlas"). It is not a direct reference to a cloud atlas.

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Review of 'Cloud Atlas' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I liked following the different stories and bouncing back and forth between them. I'm not totally sure what the thread that wove them all together was, but the individual stories kept me reading and the book as a whole was fun to read. Having seen the movie before reading the books, I had already formulated pictures of what all the characters looked like, which was probably helpful since there were many to keep track of.

Subjects

Ewing, Adam
Frobisher, Robert
Rey, Luisa
Sixsmith, Rufus
Cavendish, Timothy
Zachry
Sonmi-451
episodiromaanit
tieteiskirjallisuus
sisäkertomukset
kerronta
päiväkirjat
kirjeet
jälleensyntyminen
toisto elämä
ihmisyys
virkamiehet
säveltäjät
tiedemiehet ydintekniikka
toimittajat naiset
lehtikustantajat
tarjoilijat
paimenet
kloonit
saaret 1840-luku Tyyni valtameri
kaupungit 1930-luku Belgia Zedelghem
kaupungit 1970-luku Kalifornia
kaupungit Lontoo 2000-luku
yhteiskunta 2100-luku Korea
tuhon jälkeinen maailma
kirjallisuuspalkinnot British Book Awards Literary Fiction Award
kirjallisuuspalkinnot Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award
journalistit naiset
saaret 1840-luku Tyynimeri
yhteiskunnat 2100-luku Korea
kirjallisuuspalkinnot Richard & Judy Book of the Year award