Posted on 21/08/04
Cathedral of a novel is daring, difficult, dazzling
Cloud Atlas By David Mitchell Vintage Canada, 509 pages, $24.95There is no simple way to approach Cloud Atlas, the new novel by British author David Mitchell. Begin with the story or, rather, the stories. There are six of them and they range from the historical to the speculative, the thriller to the burlesque. The book is constructed like a Russian nesting doll: one tale buried inside the other, with a core narrative at the centre. Plots are interrupted for hundreds of pages, often in mid-thought. Connections are subtle and, amid the razzle-dazzle, easily missed.
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