Here at Death of the Author it is fairly obvious that we fail at completing every challenge that we set out for ourselves. Now I could go off an a long winded rant about school and life being so darn ...
Cloud Atlas is an all encompassing narrative that asks: What if Souls drifted through life like clouds? Sometimes slow and confusing, Cloud Atlas is one of a kind and definitely worth a read.
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to tr...