Still his deeply and compassionately drawn characters rise above their considerable symbolic value to demonstrate the importance we each have as unique individuals, whose actions matter, whose lives matter. He portrays our commonalities, not the least of which is the planet we share. Betsy Burton, The King's English Bookshop "In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr lovingly, creatively, and intelligently illustrates the ways in which humanity is both divided and united, defeated and driven by our imaginations, by our capacity for self-deception, by the power of story, the ways in which hope and despair are inextricably intertwined. Cloud Cuckoo Land is impossible to put down and once finished, life-changing, the kind of book you hope will come your way but almost never does. As its cast of characters moves us across continents and ages from ancient Greece to the present and beyond, we fall in love with the best of them-and the worst. Publishers Weekly, starred review "This is a glory of a book. Booklist, starred review "Doerr returns with a deeply affecting epic. One of the joys of reading Cloud Cuckoo Land is discovering the threads that link the five characters' lives, which ultimately cohere in ways that are simply unforgettable, as is this amazing gift of a novel." Praise for Cloud Cuckoo Land "Doerr demonstrates a singular gift for bringing these complex, fully realized characters to empathetic life in this brilliantly imagined story, which moves backward and forward in time. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness-with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we're gone.
An ancient text-the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky-provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Book Synopsis From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story.
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