Summary
The effect is dizzying. The reader is flung forward in time and then propelled backwards to the point from which he departed. Yet [David Mitchell]'s aim is not principally to bamboozle. The six narratives of Cloud Atlas vary significantly in style and tone, but they are animated by a single theme - mankind's capacity for cruelty, rapaciousness and violence.
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A World of Tricks
Cloud Atlas David Mitchell Sceptre, 544pp, £16.99 FICTION A world of tricks
David Mitchell is a tricksy novelist, but the tricks he plays tend to be structural rather than stylistic. ...See the full content of this document
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