This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2004 by David Mitchell

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Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, a division of Hodder Headline, London.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Mitchell, David
Cloud atlas : a novel / David Mitchell.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48304-1
1. Fate and fatalism—Fiction. 2. Reincarnation—Fiction. 1. Title.
PR6063.I785C58 2004
823′.92—dc22   2003069314

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