From the Pulitzer Prizeβwinning author ofΒ All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story.
The heroes ofΒ Cloud Cuckoo LandΒ are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner inΒ All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
An ancient textβthe story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the skyβprovides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectednessβwith other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after weβre gone.
Dedicated to βthe librarians then, now, and in the years to come,βΒ Cloud Cuckoo LandΒ is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardshipβof the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.
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