The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.īut the story doesn’t end even there. From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite.Ībruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Ĭloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore 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.
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