I have started Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This is my next book club selection, which we chose for various reasons. Apart from it being a well known and popular book, the author is from the area in which I live and the movie will come out soon. It is quite a big book and seems to be a challenging read, but I will give it a go. Here is the blurb:
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in Belgium between the First and Second World Wars; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; the testament of 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.
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