![]() ![]() Unbeknownst to them, a ticking bomb is placed among the books by a troubled young man, Seymour. We meet Zeno, an elderly librarian with the heart of a poet rehearsing an ancient play with a group of fifth graders. And we are stewards of our lives, our planet, and each other. The novel reminds us that people are widely interconnected – despite differences in economic position, faith, nationality, age, and even across past and future centuries. ![]() Each with the same talisman: an ancient story of personal growth and triumph. He gives us a sweeping web of strong-willed characters, many of them children, and we travel with them through desperate adventures of self-discovery and periods of aching yearning. ![]() In the prologue, we learn the opening lines of a (fictional) first-century Greek story attributed to the philosopher Diogenes, “Stranger, whomever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you.”Īnd then Doerr amazes us. ![]() In his newest novel named after this heavenly apparition, “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” author Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize winner for “All the Light We Cannot See,” gives us a soaring novel about the commonality of human desire. Imagine then, a novel in which a single ancient tale about a city in the air motivates a cast of improbable heroes to follow their most outrageous ambitions. It is perhaps no surprise that many authors write about the transformative power of books. ![]()
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