7/7/2023 0 Comments David mitchell wolkenatlasIt’s 1850 and in New Zealand, he awaits repairs to his ship. We begin with The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing, the personal diary of an American notary. I’ll try and explain it as best I can, but please be prepared that I’d imagine this will be a long post. If you don’t know the plot, you may at least know that it is one of the most intricate of modern literature. In my head I’d made it about quarter of the way through, but upon picking it up this time, I found the bookmark on page 59 of 530. I started reading it ten years ago when I was seventeen and thinking that no book was able to stop me from plundering its secrets. I’ll wager that many of you have heard of Cloud Atlas. “Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.”
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