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A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how the actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future. The novel moves from Belgium in 1931 to the West Coast in the 1970s, present-day England, a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok, and a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii. It boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point, revealing how the characters' fates intertwine and how their souls drift across time like clouds.