![]() (.) Cloud Atlas is powerful and elegant because of Mitchell's understanding of the way we respond to those fundamental and primitive stories we tell about good and evil, love and destruction, beginnings and ends. He reaches a cumulative ending of all of them, and then finishes them all individually, giving a complete narrative pleasure that is rare. Vielleicht braucht er nicht einmal einen Leser." - Kolja Mensing, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Dieser durch und durch perfekte Roman braucht keinen Rezensenten. "Angesichts derart entwaffnender Ironie und charmanter Selbstbezüglichkeit bleibt eigentlich nur noch die wortlose Kapitulation. ![]() Even for David Mitchell, that's a difficult balancing act to pull off." - Theo Tait, Daily Telegraph (.) Cloud Atlas spends half its time wanting to be The Simpsons and the other half the Bible. (.) There is a mighty problem of tone as the novel proceeds towards its post-apocalyptic core. The novel is, essentially, a grand fictional treatise about the will to power - whether corporate or tribal, personal or consumer.
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