Cloud Atlas

In this audacious and dazzling novel, Mitchell weaves history, science, humor, and suspense through six separate but related narratives, each set in a different time and place, each written in a different prose style, and each broken mid-action only to be concluded in the second half of the book. One of the more engaging stories is set in 1930s and told via letters describing a young musician's effort to become an amanuensis for a renowned, blind composer. Another focuses on a book editor who finds himself accidentally imprisoned in a home for the elderly.