Cloud Atlas
Category：MovieScience Fiction Area：America Years：2012 Director：Tom Tykwer Lana Wachowski Lilly Wachowski Starring：Tom Hanks Halle Berry Jim Broadbent Hugo Weaving Jim Sturgess Doona Bae Ben Whishaw James D'Arcy Zhou Xun Keith David David Gyasi Susan Sarandon Hugh Grant
Introduction
Cloud Atlas is David Mitchell's third novel. The book consists of six stories, starting with the diary of an American traveling from Sydney to San Francisco in 1840, a young composer living in Belgium in the early 1930s, a young journalist involved in the California disaster in 1975, a gangster who publishes his memoirs in London today, a story in Korea in 1984, and an old man narrating his youthful self-talk in Hawaii at that time. Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize.
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