In this novel, questions like "Do ants get headaches?" are asked by schoolchildren in the care of Horrox, a preacher who believes in an ordered "ladder" of the races and sermo
In this novel, questions like "Do ants get headaches?" are asked by schoolchildren in the care of Horrox, a preacher who believes in an ordered "ladder" of the races and sermonizes in favor of tobacco. Another character feels a "chain of firecrackers" explode in his head when he has a stroke. Three prophecies called "augurins" affect a sixteen-year-old shepherd in this novel, who possesses an egg-like video playback device called an (*) orison. A ship called the Prophetess holds the fugitive slave Autua and the steadily-poisoned journal writer Adam Ewing in this novel, whose other settings include the HYDRA nuclear reactor investigated by Luisa Rey and a restaurant staffed by "fabricants" such as Sonmi-451 in a dystopic future Korea. For 10 points, name this novel whose six nested narratives stretch from 1850 to a post-apocalyptic far future, a 2004 novel by David Mitchell.
In this novel, questions like "Do ants get headaches?" are asked by schoolchildren in the care of Horrox, a preacher who believes in an ordered "ladder" of the races and sermonizes in favor of tobacco.
Cloud Atlas