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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Eternal Return. Some of the characters of Cloud Atlas appeared in previous books by David Mitchell, including Timothy Cavendish, who appeared in Mitchell’s first novel, Ghostwritten. Mitchell has claimed that he’d like to include all of his recurring characters in one big novel.
Rock around The Bone Clocks. Although David Mitchell often writes about music, he doesn’t play or compose music himself. While Cloud Atlas focuses on classical music, his 2020 novel Utopia Avenue deals with rock music of the 1960s.