I can start this review by saying I was blown away, what a ride this novel was! It contains six unique stories that are interconnected. Every story is set in a different period, written in a different styles, like six different novels. We start with a 19th century seafaring story set in the Pacific, move on to a letter-style story set in Belgium in the 1930s. From there we move on to a political thriller with a compelling female protagonist in the 70s, a tragicomedy of a fairly unlikeable British guy trapped in a nursing home in our era, to fully blown dystopia set in Korea, to post-apocalypse in Hawaii, and then all the way back.

Like most dystopia, ultimately a depressing read, as the interconnected strands of story show that humans are pretty much terrible, and thirst for power, greed, it destroys, until there's almost nothing left. And even then, it goes on.

Still, a wonderful novel, I loved it deeply.