The same could be said of Doerr’s writing – its imprint remains long after the reading is done, Doerr’s words and his worlds a lasting part of the reader. But even then you’re never the same: not quite.” Hour by hour, week by week, year by year, the cells in your body labor to remake themselves the way they were the instant before your injury. “Why can’t healing happen as quickly as wounding? You twist an ankle, break a bone – you can be hurt in a heartbeat. The way they are gently interlaced with such quietude, inch by inch, makes the overall work a spectacular feat. Each story line is developed with such care and detailed world-building, that they could probably stand on their own. A deeper synopsis risks being both confounding and off-putting this is a novel requiring the trust of an intrepid reader.Īll of the key characters are outsiders in their worlds, individuals fighting for their place and somehow always able to nurture an ember of hope in the face of hopelessness, bound across time by the story of another such dreamer. Goodreads is the worlds largest site for readers with over 50 million.

An ultimately hopeful and life-affirming novel about the essence of love, literature and art Irish Independent. The stories of Anna and Omeir in mid 15th century Turkey, Seymour and Zeno in present day Idaho, and Konstance decades from now on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet are all bound by a little-known and enigmatic ancient text. Cloud Cuckoo Land begins there and sweeps through the millennia in a huge, imaginative arc that celebrates the outsiders, the writers and the keepers of books. “Cloud Cuckoo Land” takes on a phenomenal scope, spanning time and space with astonishing ambition. “Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflect our vast interconnectedness – with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we’re gone.” – from the Scribner press releaseĪnthony Doerr, author of such extraordinary works as “Memory Wall” and “All the Light We Cannot See” (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015), returns to the scene with what is possibly his farthest reaching, most complex work yet.

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