The Cloud Atlas is like a mirror maze in which six voices echo each other: a mid-nineteenth-century notary returning to the U.S. from Australia. A young composer forced to trade body and soul in Europe between World Wars; a journalist in California in the 1970s uncovering a corporate conspiracy; small publisher - our contemporary, who managed to break the bank on the bandit autobiography "Cut Strike" and runs from creditors ; clone-servants from a fast food enterprise in Korea - the country of the victorious cyberpunk; and Hawaiian goats at the end of civilization. For the first time in Russian - a new monumental masterpiece from the author of the famous "Dream No9", also included in the shortlist of the Booker Prize.