Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
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Hardback
h232 x 164mm - 640pg
28 Sep 2021
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9781982168438
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Pre-order the spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See. Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now. A single copy of an ancient text - the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land - provides solace, mystery and the most profound human connection to these five unforgettable characters. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Zeno, Seymour and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders, struggling to survive and finding resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
Praise for All the Light We Cannot See:' Far more than a conventional war story, It' s a tightly focused epic . . . Doerr paints with a rich palette, using prose that resonates deeply and conveys the ephemera of daily existence along with high drama, sadness and hope . . . A bittersweet and moving novel that lingers in the mind' Daily Mail' An epic work about bravery and the power of attachment' Rose Tremain, Observer, Books of the Year' An epic and a masterpiece' Justin Cartwright, Observer' This novel will be a piece of luck for anyone with a long plane journey or beach holiday ahead. It is such a page-turner, entirely absorbing. . . magnificent' Guardian' Doerr can bring a scene to life in a single paragraph . . . Delicate and moving . . . the novel takes hold and will not easily let go' The Times' Boy meets girl in Anthony Doerr' s hauntingly beautiful new book, but the circumstances are as elegantly circuitous as they can be' The New York Times' I' m not sure I will read a better novel this year . . . Enthrallingly told, beautifully written and so emotionally plangent that some passages bring tears' Washington Post' This jewel of a story is put together like a vintage timepiece . . . Doerr' s writing and imagery are stunning. It' s been a while since a novel had me under its spell in this fashion. ' Abraham Verghese' A dazzling, epic work of fiction. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully about the mythic and the intimate, about snails on beaches and armies on the move, about fate and love and history and those breathless, unbearable moments when they all come crashing together. ' Jess Walter
Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, currently in development as a Netflix limited series. 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, all published by 4th Estate. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library' s Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781982168438
Published: 28 Sep 2021
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Imprint: Scribner Book Company
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardback
Height: 232mm
Width: 164mm
Spine: 44mm
Weight: 916g
Pages: 640

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