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  title info:
    title: Cloud cuckoo land
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Doerr, Anthony
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 626 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 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 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 o…
  note: Anthony Doerr.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-tu---
    geographic code: n-us-id
  subject:
    topic: Space
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Future, The
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Libraries
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Historical
  classification: PS3604.O34 C56 2021
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 9781982168438
  identifier: 1982168439
  identifier: 9781982168445
  identifier: 1982168447
  identifier: 9781982168452
  identifier: 2021002936
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210126
    record change date: 20220105160622.0
    record identifier: in00004365280