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Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Unknown Author

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(12 ratings)
1152 pages2023HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780008658809
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian <p>'There is magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you'</p> <p>Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity's last hope.</p> <p>Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.</p> <p>The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.</p> <p>'Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages' Observer</p> <p>'Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing' Financial Times</p> <p>'This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read' Daily Mirror</p>

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Published
2023
Pages
1152
ISBN
9780008658809
Language
en

About Unknown Author

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/

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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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