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    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Cloud Atlas with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, a novel consisting of six interconnected stories from different periods of history. Starting with the journal of a 19th-century lawyer, half of each story is told, only to be interrupted at a crucial moment, at which point the next story begins. The reader is taken on a whirlwind journey through the past, present and future, meeting a lovelorn composer from the interwar period, an investigative journalist with her first big scoop, a bumbling publisher trapped in a nursing home, a clone who takes up the banner of revolution, and eventually a tribesman in a post-apocalyptic world, whose story is told in full, only for the novel to cycle back through time, eventually bringing the reader back to that same 19th-century journal that opened the story. Cloud Atlas is one of David Mitchell’s best-known works, and raises powerful questions about the nature of time, identity and humanity itself.

    Find out everything you need to know about Cloud Atlas in a fraction of the time!

    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:

    • A complete plot summary
    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMar 28, 2019
    ISBN9782808014700
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      Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      ENGLISH NOVELIST

      Born in Southport (England) in 1969.

      Notable works:

      Ghostwritten (1999), novel

      number9dream (2001), novel

      The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), novel

      David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire, England, and studied English and American literature at Kent University. He spent eight years teaching English in Japan before settling in Ireland with his wife and two children. Mitchell’s writing might generally be categorised as ‘contemporary fiction’, but it often includes elements of the supernatural and fantastic, blending contemporary with science fiction and historical fiction. His debut novel, Ghostwritten, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for the best work of British literature written by an author under 35, and number9dream and Cloud Atlas were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. As well as his seven novels, Mitchell has also written two opera libretti, contributed to the script of season two of the Netflix series Sense8 (2015-2018) and translated The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism (2007) by Naoki Higashida (Japanese writer, born in 1992) from Japanese into English (in collaboration with K. A. Yoshida).

      SIX OVERLAPPING STORIES IN

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