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Harriett Gilbert talks to multiple prize-winning English author David Mitchell about his dazzling bestseller Cloud Atlas. With dramatic use of time-shifts and literary forms, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas circles the globe, reaching from the South Seas of the nineteenth century to a post-apocalyptic future. Offering an enthralling and often chilling vision of humanity's will to power and where that will lead us, Mitchell's expertly crafted novel follows the stories of six people whose lives interlock in subtle and mysterious ways.
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