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. 云圖——地球上不同尺度的云層覆蓋和充滿變化的地表面特征的圖像。 《云圖》書如其名,由六個(gè)環(huán)環(huán)相扣的故事組成,時(shí)間跨度為十九世紀(jì)到后末日時(shí)代,波及全球各地—— 1850年...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. 云圖——地球上不同尺度的云層覆蓋和充滿變化的地表面特征的圖像。 《云圖》書如其名,由六個(gè)環(huán)環(huán)相扣的故事組成,時(shí)間跨度為十九世紀(jì)到后末日時(shí)代,波及全球各地—— 1850年前后,太平洋,罹患寄生蟲病的美國公證人亞當(dāng)·尤因從查塔姆群島乘船回國,航行途中目睹震驚場面, 1931年,比利時(shí)西德海姆,身無分文的英國年輕作曲家羅伯特·弗羅比舍在音樂大師門下經(jīng)歷諸多愛恨情仇; 1975年,美國加州布衣納斯·耶巴斯,小報(bào)記者路易莎·雷冒著巨大危險(xiǎn)調(diào)查核電站工程中的腐敗和雇兇殺人; 21世紀(jì)初,英國,被黑道追殺的出版人蒂莫西·卡文迪什被軟禁在一家養(yǎng)老院中,苦不堪言; 反烏托邦時(shí)代的未來,內(nèi)索國,宋記餐廳克隆人服務(wù)員星美-451反抗著締造和剝削克隆人群體的社會(huì); 后末日未來,夏威夷,失去父親的牧羊少年扎克里與高科技文明幸存者不期而遇…… 六位主人公或許是同一靈魂的化身,卻又被印上截然不同的胎記。波詭云譎的故事情節(jié)與亙古不變的人類本性交織在一起,構(gòu)成了一幅絢麗無比的云圖。(展開)