Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

My parents an’ their gen’ration b’liefed, somewhere, hole cities o’ Old Uns s’vived the Fall b’yonder the oceans, jus’ like you, Zachry. Old-time names haunted their ’maginin’s…Melbun, Orkland, Jo’burg, Buenas Yerbs, Mumbay, Sing’pore.