![]() ![]() The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant. It is not a direct reference to a cloud atlas.ĬLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. ![]() The author has said that the book is about reincarnation and the universality of human nature, and the title references a changing landscape (a “cloud”) over manifestations of fixed human nature (the “atlas”). The title was inspired by the piece of music of the same name by Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi. ![]() Its text is interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai’i in a distant post-apocalyptic future. ★★ One of Richard & Judy’s 100 Books of The Decade ★★Ĭloud Atlas is a work combining metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction. ★★ David Mitchell’s Bestselling And Booker Prize-shortlisted Novel ★★ ★★ It won the British Book Awards Literary Fiction award ★★ ![]() ★★ By The Author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET ★★ ![]()
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