Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize (English Edition) [Kindle]
- Hodder & Stoughton (2008年9月4日発売)
- Amazon.co.jp ・電子書籍 (545ページ)
作品紹介・あらすじ
By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade and has now been made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagans California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation the narrators of CLOUD ATLAS hear each others echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
感想・レビュー・書評
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こういう話好き。6つの話が繋がっていないようで繋がっている輪廻と人間の業についての話、とでも言うのかな。
4章のイギリスの出版社経営している主人公の鉄道を使っての逃避行がその中でも秀逸だった。
6つの話は、仏教の六道と通じているのだろう。
Cloud Atlasというタイトルに関する記述が2度ほど出てくるが、そのどちらも素敵なイメージだった。
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