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Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell (also rec’d by Natalie Portman )

Another form-defying work. Mitchell leaps across space and time to tell six seemingly disconnected stories in different styles. ‘Only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean,’ one of his characters writes. ‘Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?'

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