Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / Anthony Doerr.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982189679
- ISBN: 1982189673
- ISBN: 9781982189679 : HRD
- ISBN: 1982189673 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781982189679
- ISBN: 1982189673
- Physical Description: 1136 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers--another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world--or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's story through her father"--Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Children > Fiction. Books and reading > Fiction. Space and time > Fiction. Istanbul (Turkey) > History > Siege, 1453 > Fiction. Idaho > Fiction. Large type books. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Science fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 12 of 15 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at New Milford Public Library.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 15 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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New Milford Public Library | LP F DOERR (Text) | 34021147462275 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Large Print Edition) : Large Print
Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times bestselling 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 . He has won five O. 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. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.