{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Hardcover, 640 pages Published: 2021 From the Pulitzer Prizeβwinning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps
Cloud Cuckoo Land
β Scribed by Anthony Doerr
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- EN-US
- Weight
- 363 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1982168439
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β¦ Synopsis
**From the Pulitzer Prize -winning author of All the Light We Cannot See , perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. ******
The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See , Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
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