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Review cloud cuckoo land6/26/2023 ![]() ( Sometimes he would lay out all these micro chapters on the floor so he could see them and discover the resonances between characters across space and time. She is laying out on the floor of a large room the scraps of pages that comprise the book. We meet Konstance, 14, on an interstellar, generational ship, maybe the late 21st century, maybe the 22nd. But all have lost, or lose, at least one parent.Īnthony Doerr - image from Boise State Public Radio Each has characteristics that set them apart. ![]() Each of the five characters are introduced to this story, and we see how it impacts their lives. While the author is real, the book was made up.) It tells of a shepherd, Aethon, seeking a magical, heavenly place in the sky, the “Cloud Cuckoo Land” of the title. ![]() Cloud Cuckoo Land is an ancient story written by Antonius Diogenes around the first century C.E. Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered.Anthony Doerr has written a masterpiece of a tale, connecting five characters, over hundreds of years through their relationship to a single book. ![]()
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