Cloud Cuckoo Land: Signed Edition
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<span data-sheets-textstyleruns="{"1":0}{"1":29,"2":{"6":1,"9":1}}{"1":56}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":5057,"3":{"1":0},"9":1,"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"15":"Calibri"}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"From the acclaimed author of All the Light We Cannot See comes a novel of three strands: one of two friends at the siege of Constantinople, the second of two teenage idealists caught up in a terror attack in modern-day Idaho, and the third on an interstellar ship bound for a world far from ours...\nEntirely unforgettable."}" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial; text-align: center;">From the acclaimed author of All the Light We Cannot See comes a novel of three strands: one of two friends at the siege of Constantinople, the second of two teenage idealists caught up in a terror attack in modern-day Idaho, and the third on an interstellar ship bound for a world far from ours...
Entirely unforgettable.
Synopsis
Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now.
A single copy of an ancient text – the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land – provides solace, mystery, and the most profound human connection to these five unforgettable characters.
Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Zeno, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and misfits, on the cusp of adulthood, struggling to survive and finding resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.
Publisher information
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN: 9780008478995
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