By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade and has now been made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
云图——地球上不同尺度的云层覆盖和充满变化的地表面特征的图像。
《云图》书如其名,由六个环环相扣的故事组成,时间跨度为十九世纪到后末日时代,波及全球各地——
1850年前后,太平洋,罹患寄生虫病的美国公证人亚当·尤因从查塔姆群岛乘船回国,航行途中目睹震惊场面,
1931年,比利时西德海姆,身无分文的英国年轻作曲家罗伯特·弗罗比舍在音乐大师门下经历诸多爱恨情仇;
1975年,美国加州布衣纳斯·耶巴斯,小报记者路易莎·雷冒着巨大危险调查核电站工程中的腐败和雇凶杀人;
21世纪初,英国,被黑道追杀的出版人蒂莫西·卡文迪什被软禁在一家养老院中,苦不堪言;
反乌托邦时代的未来,内索国,宋记餐厅克隆人服务员星美-451反抗着缔造和剥削克隆人群体的社会;
后末日未来,夏威夷,失去父亲的牧羊少年扎克里与高科技文明幸存者不期而遇……
六位主人公或许是同一灵魂的化身,却又被印上截然不同的胎记。波诡云谲的故事情节与亘古不变的人类本性交织在一起,构成了一幅绚丽无比的云图。