![]() ![]() In this Myriobiblos, he provided a synopsis of Thune. ![]() Stick with me and you will not be disappointed. ![]() An ambitious novel deserves an ambitious review. Most of the information I found just made me more and more impressed with what Doerr did here. ![]() Yes, I had to study some ancient Greek literature. Then I thought – do I really want to review this book? And again, I decided that I should. The three situations weave together as each character is touched by the story told in the old manuscript, “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Antonius Diogenes.Įvery once in a while, you come across a beast of a novel and wonder, should I stick with this? This was one of those novels for me. Finally, Konstance, a girl on the ship that has left earth in search of a new planet 592 years away, is calmed when her father tells her of the land in the sky where the birds live among golden buildings and unlimited food stores. A group of children put on a play called “Cloud Cuckoo Land” in 2020 Idaho. A girl named Mary smuggles the pages out of town as she flees the invasion. An ancient, stained manuscript is found weeks before the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is a literary tribute to the precarious life of books. ![]()
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