Cloud Cuckoo Land is the new book from Idaho-based author Anthony Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See. Like his last offering, Doerr’s new book is a complex interweaving of several storylines - some centuries apart - with the protagonists almost all children. Among them is Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls of Constantinople during its 1453 siege.
Dedicated to “librarians then, now, and in the years to come”, Cloud Cuckoo Land has been called a "paean to these nameless people" who have played such an important role in the transmission of ancient texts and preserved the tales they tell.
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