The other character, Konstance, 10, is aboard The Argos spaceship bound for BetaOph2, which the passengers will colonize because Earth is too polluted. Then 17-year-old Seymour enters the building, where Zeno and the children are rehearsing, with a homemade bomb in his backpack and a gun in his pocket.īefore we find out why Seymour is bent on destruction, Doerr goes back 600 centuries to Anna, a seven-year-old orphan in Constantinople who sells old books she steals from an abandoned library to make money, and then jumps to Omeir, a baby born around the same time with a cleft palate in Bulgaria, where the villagers believe the boy is cursed. In the first pages of Doerr’s book, it is 2020 and octogenarian Zeno is directing a children’s play in the fictional town of Lakeport, Idaho, based on his translation of the Cloud Cuckoo Land story. author, who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for his last book, All The Light We Cannot See, invents a 2,400-year-old novel by Antonius Diogenes, a real Greek author of speculative fiction.ĭoerr’s invented story about Aethon, a foolish shepherd who is searching for a utopia in the sky called Cloud Cuckoo Land, is threaded throughout the novel and links five characters across time, from Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey) in the 1400s to a spaceship 65 years in the future. It took Anthony Doerr seven years to write Cloud Cuckoo Land, which is also the name of the story within his story.
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