Like the streets of the model city that the loving father of that novel’s blind heroine constructs so that she can learn to navigate independently, Mr. Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set during World War II, was a hectic network of stories-love stories, war stories, coming-of-age stories, stories of devastation, courage and regret. “All the Light We Cannot See” (2014), Mr.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.Of all our contemporary literary fiction writers, Anthony Doerr is the one whose novels seem to be the purest, most full-hearted response to that primal request. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.Īnthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. This is another siege.Īnd 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.Īnna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old 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. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople.
“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” - The Washington Postįrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a “wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences” ( The New York Times Book Review).Īmong the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book.
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