Cloud cuckoo land

a novel

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Doerr, Anthony

Verfasser Angabe:
Anthony Doerr

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Gegenwart
• Konstantinopel
• Raumfahrzeug
• Bibliothek
• Zukunft
• Idaho
• Vergangenheit

Verlag:
Scribner

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
626 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-1-9821868-8-3

Interessenskreise:
American Literature

Inhalt:
The heroes of "Cloud Cuckoo Land" 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 and octogenarian Zeno 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 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 peril. An ancient text - the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky - provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters.
Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. He has created a 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.
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.

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