So far, so Mo Yan.Other, more obvious themes feature too.
Cloud Atlas's Wikipedia entry covers the book's more obvious themes and content, so here I'll stick to "The Making Of -type angles, and a few ROf -type Tangles
Focusing on issues like sex education and masculinity, it also explores less obvious themes like the interactions between gender and information technology, migration, or disability.
But their too obvious themes can also make them seem like works from an artist who doesn't realize when he's reinventing the wheel.
Along with currency and market access, an array of less obvious themes emerged from the submissions to the Commerce Department, including infrastructure shortcomings and what some industries saw as heavy-handed regulation.
There are a few obvious themes that have coalesced — the dominance of the Southeastern Conference, the numbing efficiency of the top quarterbacks and the perennial outsider Stanford establishing itself as a national title threat.
Its rooms play on more obvious themes - the Island Resort room has, er, a potted palm tree and in-room Jacuzzi, while Modern Britain sports matching pink flowery curtains, sofa and bedspread - it's romantic Britain circa 1975.
"It absolutely captures the feel of being a child of that age," said Eccleshare. "It's not a big blockbusting novel with obvious themes of dystopia and apocalypse – instead it's a heart-warming, imaginative, funny story with a very serious message at its heart".
Camus's diagnosis of the essential human problem rests on a series of "truisms" (MS, 18) and "obvious themes" (MS, 16).
(OK, OK. One comment. Certain inclusions on the guest list point to some obvious themes in Barack Obama's upcoming speech -- note the presence of Lilly Ledbetter, for example).
Along with other hit YA book series like Hunger Games and Divergent, one of the profoundly obvious themes of the books is violence.
