6/9/2023 0 Comments Cloud cuckooland reviewNow he returns with his highly anticipated new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land. Dedicated to ‘the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,’ Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship – of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.ĭoerr’s novel All the Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 and spent over 200 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, becoming a beloved global bestseller. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story of resilience, hope – and a book.īound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.Īnthony Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflect our own vast interconnectedness – with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and those who will be here long after we’re gone.
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