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Anthony doerr novel5/31/2023 Five dreamers and outsiders, intertwined as they seek, and find, resourcefulness and hope.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 and the Carnegie Medal. In a not-so-distant future, alone on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance copies the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. On the shelves is a bomb, planted by troubled, idealistic Seymour. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play of Aethon’s story, remarkably preserved. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted into the invading army. Insatiably curious, she learns to read, and finds the book of Aethon, who longs to turn into a bird and fly to paradise. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the walls of Constantinople. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr follows All the Light We Cannot See with Cloud Cuckoo Land-a triumph of imagination and compassion called a “wildly inventive, humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences.”
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