Cloud atlas : a novel

ISBN: 9780307373571 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307373576 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: remote 1 online resource : digital (2934 KB).
Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2010.

Mitchell, David (David Stephen) (Author).

Summary: 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 Reagan's 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 other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.