Cloud Cuckoo Land (B&N Exclusive Collector's Edition)

by Anthony Doerr

Overview

This Barnes & Noble Exclusive Deluxe Edition will have a full cloth binding stamped; gold stamping on the cover and spine; gold end-papers, and a navy blue ribbon marker, as well as an essay by Anthony Doerr, tying together--as only he can--boundary walls, fear of the unknown, sacred gateways, and reading across a lifetime.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, 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 trying to figure out the world around them: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for an exoplanet, decades from now. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.

An ancient text—the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky—provides solace and mystery to these unforgettable characters. Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects 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.

Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982194796
Publisher:	Scribner
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Edition description:	B&N Exclusive Edition
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	232,518
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Anthony Doerr (1973) is an American author of novels and short stories. Doerr won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2014 novel, All the Light We Cannot See, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, along with his 2021 novel Cloud Cuckoo Land. His first novel, About Grace, was published in 2004. Doerr is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and to the e-magazine The Morning News. He currently resides in Boise, Idaho with his family.

Learn more about Anthony Doerr on the B&N Podcast

Hometown:

Boise, Idaho

Date of Birth:

October 27, 1973

Place of Birth:

Cleveland, Ohio

Education:

B.A., Bowdoin College, 1995; M.F.A., Bowling Green State University, 1999

Editorial Reviews

"Marin Ireland and Simon Jones sparkle as they narrate this immersive time-traveling novel. They vividly deliver the stories that weave through this audiobook. A gifted mimic, Ireland performs subtle and effective emulations of Australian, Italian, and English accents. When she slows down to enunciate the classical Greek sprinkled throughout the text, her reading shimmers with meaning. Both Ireland and Jones are masters of pacing and cadence, which matters in an interwoven narrative that shifts in time from the fall of Constantinople (1450s) to present-day small-town Idaho and to a future set on a spacecraft. From accounts of myths to misbegotten environmental terrorism, Doerr's novel pulls out all the stops, and the narrators create an enduring listening experience."

AudioFile Magazine