David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is the most technically ambitious British novel of the century: six nested narratives spanning from the Pacific in 1849 to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii in the far future, each written in a completely different style, with each story interrupted at its midpoint before the second halves are told in reverse order. Its argument β that all human action ripples across time, that we are all simultaneously oppressors and liberators β is as daring as its structure.

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