But if, as Kemal recommends early in the novel, I turn to "Happiness," the last chapter, I discover there how he sought out "the esteemed Orhan Pamuk, who has narrated the story in my name, and with my approval".
As the novel progresses, strange connections emerge: the text of the first chapter is discovered on a bookshelf in the second; the hero of the third section hears a bewitching recording of chamber music, the "Cloud Atlas Sextet," which was composed by the protagonist of the second.
You have to skip all the way to the Bear Stearns chapter to discover what happened to the Securities and Exchange Commission's Christopher Cox: He was simply not invited to the meetings, despite being Bear's and Lehman's regulator, because of a judgment (by whom?) that "he wasn't up to the job".
She will add chapters or "discover" lost works — for instance, "archival" footage of Antinova's late, desperate years on the vaudeville stage.
Some readers will be dismayed to find, in the final chapters, Dorothea discovering fulfilment in her work for Will Ladislaw as he becomes a reforming MP.
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Going back to Chapter 5, I discovered that Ruth had won a prize for attendance in the last year of her grandmother's life.
In that letter to Rodell, he writes: "One afternoon a few weeks ago, I walked in on my typist (a junior history major, and pretty average, I'm afraid) while she was finishing typing chapter 15, and discovered great huge tears coursing down her cheeks.
In Chapter 3, we discover that there is one problem with Wrinkles' wish: Cyclops is not only a mythical creature, but also a giant, killer eye-bot (spelled "C.Y.K.L.O.P.S").
But after one chapter, anyone will soon discover that it's the characters that keep you there.
