Another-a very funny story about an editor caught up with gangsters-is set in London in the 2000s. One involves a young American doctor on a sailing ship in the South Pacific in the mid-1800s. Written by the British author David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas is made up of six inter-related stories set in different times and places. Yet if you haven’t already read it (it came out in 2004) or seen the movie with Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, I suspect that my summary of the plot will make it sound quite strange. It explores how self-centered and bad people can be, but also how supportive and good people can be. I can tell you that it is a touching and clever novel about moral choices. Cloud Atlas is a wonderful book that is hard to describe.
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