![]() ![]() Mitchell gets into the head of each character, creating wildly different personas: from the modest and likeable Adam Ewing to the narcissistic and delusional Robert Frobisher, gutsy Luisa Rey to pernickety Timothy Cavendish, and revolutionary Sonmi-451 to troubled Zachry. I didn’t quite get this from the film, but I think each section is supposed to be real documents/records – very much harkening back to the 19th century style of writing fiction as fact. Narrative in the form of an interview transcript.Narrative in the form of an autobiography. ![]() Narrative in the form of a fictional novel first draft – a novel within a novel.Narrative in the form of fictional letters.Narrative in the form of fictional journals.Each of the six stories within the novel are told in a different style and in a different genre. The most apparent aspect of the book is the sheer skill of Mitchell’s writing. I don’t think I’ll write a ‘proper’ review, on the basis that the novel is very similar to the film, but there are still interesting points to discuss and this may well end up morphing into a review of sorts. Having watched the film of Cloud Atlas, and loving it, I decided I had to read the book, originally published in 2004 and written by David Mitchell. ![]()
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