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Cloud Cuckoo Land

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of `All the Light We Cannot See` comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story of resilience, hope – and a book. “Sets him comfortably alongside Tolkien and David Mitchell, and he is a much more elegant writer than two of those … `Cloud Cuckoo Land` is an impressive achievement and a joy to read. Serious novels are rarely this fun” The Times 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.”A humane and uplifting book for adults that`s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences. `Cloud Cuckoo Land` is ultimately a celebration of books, the power and possibilities of reading” New York Times