The Cloud Atlas (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Liam Callanan | knygos.lt

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Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, "The Cloud Atlas" is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening-and of a youngsoldier who came to Alaska on an extraordinary, top-secret mission...and found a world that would haunt him forever.
Drifting through the night, whisper-quiet, they were the most sublimemanifestations of a desperate enemy: Japanese balloon bombs. Made of rice paper, at once ingenious and deadly, they sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific...and once they started landing, the U.S. scrambled teams tofind and defuse them, and then keep them secret from an already anxious public. Eighteen-year-old Louis Belk was one of those men. Dispatched to the Alaskan frontier, young Sergeant Belk was better trained in bomb disposalthan in keeping secrets. And the mysteries surrounding his mission only increased when he met his superior officer-a brutal veteran OSS spy hunter who knew all too well what the balloons could do--andLily, a Yup'ik Eskimo woman who claimed she could see the future.
Louis's superior ushers him into a world of dark secrets; Lily introduces Louis to an equally disorienting world ofspirits-and desire. But the world that finally tests them all is Alaska, whose vastness cloaks mysteries that only become more frightening as they unravel. Chasing after the ghostly floating weapons, Louisembarks upon an adventure that will lead him deep into the tundra. There, on the edge of the endless wilderness, he will make a discovery and a choice that will change the course of his life.
At once aheart-quickening mystery and a unique love story, "The Cloud Atlas" is also a haunting, lyrical rendering of a little-known chapter in history. Brilliantly imagined, beautifully told, this is storytellingat its very best. "From the Hardcover edition."