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Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

4.2
(368 ratings)
640 pages30 editions2021HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780008478292

About this book

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST<br> <br> 'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian<br> <br> 'Ingenious, hopefuly and totally absorbing' Financial Times<br> <br> 'Buoyant with humanity' Daily Mail<br> <br> <br> <br> When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive<br> <br> <br> <br> How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.<br> <br> <br> <br> Constantinople, 1453:<br> <br> An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.<br> <br> <br> <br> Idaho, 2020:<br> <br> <br> <br> An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that's crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans?<br> <br> <br> <br> Unknown, Sometime in the Future:<br> <br> <br> <br> With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.<br> <br> <br> <br> Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself. Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr's new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.<br> <br> <br> <br> 'Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages' Observer<br> <br> <br> <br> 'This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read' Daily Mirror<br> <br> <br> <br> 'Serious novels are rarely this fun' The Times

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2021
Pages
640
ISBN
9780008478292
Language
en
Editions
30

About Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of the story collections The Shell Collector and Memory Wall, the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, and the novels About Grace and All the Light We Cannot See, which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Doerr’s short stories and essays have won four O. Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, New American Stories, The Best American Essays, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and lots of other places. His work has been translated into over forty languages and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, an Alex Award from the American Library Association, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, four Pushcart Prizes, two Pacific Northwest Book Awards, four Ohioana Book Awards, the 2010 Story Prize, which is considered the most prestigious prize in the U.S. for a collection of short stories, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, which is the largest prize in the world for a single short story. All the Light We Cannot See was a #1 New York Times bestseller, and remained on the hardcover fiction bestseller list for 134 consecutive weeks. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and two sons. A number of media interviews with him are collected here. Though he is often asked, as far as he knows he is not related to the late writer Harriet Doerr. ([source][1]) [1]: http://anthonydoerr.com/biography/

Community Reviews

phil★★★★★9/24/2023

Struggled to keep the narratives straight in the beginning, but by the end, they weaved together so beautifully.

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