Meet at 2pm at the Apex on Tuesday 8th November, to chat about “Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr. It’s quite a long book, but we have 6 weeks to read it!
“A luminous feat of imagination from the acclaimed author of ‘All the Light We Cannot See‘, ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ traces five unforgettable characters through three distinct time periods, all connected by a prized copy of a mysterious ancient text:
. Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople.
. Teenage idealist Seymour & gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho.
. Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now.
A single copy of an ancient text – the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land – provides solace, mystery, and the most profound human connection to these five unforgettable characters.
Like Marie-Laure and Werner in ‘All the Light We Cannot See’, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and misfits, on the cusp of adulthood, struggling to survive and finding resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.“
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008478674
Number of pages: 592