A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021ONE OF BARACK OBAMA's FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021'Serious novels are rarely this fun' The Times'A gift' Guardian'Buoyant with humanity' Daily Mail'Worth the seven year wait' Stylist When everything is lost, it's our stories that surviveHow do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unforgettable cast of dreamers and outsiders from past, present and future to offer a vision of survival against all odds.Constantinople, 1453: An orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy with a love for animals risk everything on opposite sides of a city wall to protect the people they love.Idaho, 2020:An impoverished, idealistic kid seeks revenge on a world that's crumbling around him. Can he go through with it when a gentle old man stands between him and his plans?Unknown, Sometime in the Future:With her tiny community in peril, Konstance is the last hope for the human race. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance.Bound together by a single ancient text, these tales interweave to form a tapestry of solace and resilience and a celebration of storytelling itself.
Like its predecessor All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr's new novel is a tale of hope and of profound human connection.
Product Details
Format: Paperback | 640 pages
Language: English
ISBN10 : 0008478651
ISBN13 : 9780008478650
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 28 Sep 2021
Category: : Fiction
Dimensions: (WxH): 6.02 x 9.21 inches
Weight: 826 g
Author: Anthony Doerr
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, currently in development as a Netflix limited series. He is also the author of two short story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, all published by 4th Estate. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.