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| Set in past and present Alaska,
The Cloud Atlas is narrated by a missionary who spent World War II chasing
down one of Japan’s strangest weapons – firebombs that silently crossed the
Pacific, tethered to balloons. But it’s the people he found who haunt him
longer: a Yup’ik Eskimo woman, a shaman, a boy.
In 1944-45, Louis Belk was a soldier, not a missionary, dispatched to find and dispose of these improbable weapons – Fu-Go weapons, or Japanese balloon bombs – and then keep them secret from an already anxious public. But the mysteries confronting Louis only
increase when he meets his superior officer – a brutal veteran OSS spy
hunter who knows all too well what the balloons can do – and a Yup’ik Eskimo
woman who claims she can see the future. Chasing after the ghostly, floating
weapons, Louis embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into the vast
tundra, to a discovery and a choice that will change the course of his life.
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Banner photo: detail from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce hurricane photo. |