Cloud Atlas

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An alternate cover for this edition can be found here and here.The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity 's dangerous will to power. A reluctant voyager crosses the Pacific in 1850. A disinherited composer gatecrashes in between-wars Belgium. A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors. Others are a journalist in Governor Reagan’s California, and genetically-modified dinery server on death-row. Finally, a young Pacific Islander witnesses the nightfall of science and civilization. Show more