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Cloud atlas / David Mitchell

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Mitchell, David (1969-....)

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton | 2005

"Cloud Atlas" begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . .. From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history... "Sans le savoir, des personnages d'époques différentes sont liés par une destinée commune tissée dans le temps et dont le dessein n'apparaît que progressivement : Ewing, un homme de loi américain du milieu du XIXe siècle, Frobisher, un jeune compositeur du début du XXe siècle, Luisa Rey, une journaliste des années 1970, un androïde condamné à mort par un état situé dans le futur, etc."

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