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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author.     Subjects     Space and time -- Fiction.     Future, The -- Fiction.     Libraries -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author.       by title:      Cloud cuckoo land : ...         MARC Display

Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / Anthony Doerr. by Doerr, Anthony, 1973- author. New York : Scribner, 2021. Subjects Space and time -- Fiction.   Future, The -- Fiction.   Libraries -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781982168438 (hardcover) 1982168439 (hardcover) Description:  626 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First Scribner hardcover edition. Requests:  1 Summary:  "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 storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aiea Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Ewa Beach P/S Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked out 05/29/2024 Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked out 06/30/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Fiction Doerr Checked In   Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 4 5 Next

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