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• Title:Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / Anthony Doerr.
  
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• Author/Creator:Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS3604.O34 C56 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Space--Fiction.
  Future, The--Fiction.
  Libraries--Fiction.
  Space and time--Fiction.
  Books and reading--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Historical fiction.
  
• Edition:Scribner trade paperback edition.
  
• Description:578 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel is a triumph story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope--and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness--with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we're gone. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a Utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour.This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to world so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. 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. -- From dust jacket.
  
• ISBN:9781982168445 paperback
  1982168447 paperback
  9781982168438 hardcover
  9781982168452 electronic book
  
• Contents:Prologue
  The argos
  Konstance
  One: Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you
  The lakeport public library
  Two : Aethon has a vision
  A woodcutters' village in the rhodope mountains of Bulgaria
  Three: The Crone's warning
  Four: Thessaly, land of magic
  Five: the ass
  Six: the bandits' hideout
  Seven: The miller and the cliff
  Eight: round and round
  Nine: At the frozen rim of the world
  Ten: The gull
  Eleven: In the belly of the whale
  Twelve: The wizard inside the whale
  Thirteen: Out of the whale and into the storm
  Fourteen: The gates of cloud cuckoo land
  Fifteen: The guardians at the gates
  Sixteen: The riddle of the owls
  Seventeen: The wonders of cloud cuckoo land
  Eighteen: It was all so magnificent, yet...
  Nineteen: Aethon means blazing
  twenty: The garden of the Gooddess
  Twenty-one: The super magical extra powerful book of everything
  Twenty-two: What you already have is better than what you so desperately seek
  Twenty-three: the green beauty of the broken world
  Twenty-four: Nostos.