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0008478678

Cloud cuckoo land.

Author: Doerr, Anthony.

Publication year: 2022

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London: 4th Estate, 2022.

ISBN: 9780008478674 (pbk.): £9.99.

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Originally published: 2021.

'Cloud Cuckoo Land' follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and 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.