Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds sodramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. She has never set foot on our planet.Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, andKonstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravestdanger. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar shipArgos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her byher father. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealisticteenager, Seymour. His path and Anna’s will cross.Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisonerof war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all oddsthrough centuries. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with hisbeloved oxen into the invading army. This she readsto her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege ofConstantinople. Restless, insatiably curious, Annalearns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon,who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness-with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone. Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope-and a book. █████████████████████████████████████████████████įrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land.

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