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.
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