Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

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From the author of All the Light We Cannot See comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story of resilience, hope - and a book.

'Anthony Doerr takes language beyond mortal limits'

Vanity Fair

Bound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world around them: thirteen-year-old 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.

Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our own vast interconnectedness - with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we're gone. 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.

ANTHONY DOER is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two short story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.