Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
Book
First Scribner edition.
Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel is a triumph story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope--and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness--with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we're gone. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a Utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour.This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to world so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship--of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart. --
Available copies
- 56 of 66 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
5 current holds with 66 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ardsley Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31000151272658 |
Available - |
| Bedford Free Library | FIC DOE (Text) Fiction |
31002150871035 |
Available - |
| Bedford Hills Free Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31003151581508 |
Available - |
| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31036150953690 |
Available - |
| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31036150953716 |
Available - |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31004151792491 |
Available - |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31004151822736 |
Available - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31005153450327 |
Available - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31005500434040 |
Available - |
| Croton Free Library | FICTION/DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31006151842028 |
Available - |
| Croton Free Library | FICTION/DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31006151871027 |
Available - |
| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31007151413463 |
Available - |
| Eastchester Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31008152555005 |
Checked out 04/23/2024 |
| Greenburgh Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31009154734291 |
Available - |
| Greenburgh Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31009154734309 |
Checked out 05/03/2024 |
| Greenburgh Public Library | DOERR (Text) Available In Storage |
31009154870228 |
Available - |
| Greenburgh Public Library | DOERR (Text) Available In Storage |
31009154870236 |
Available - |
| Harrison Public Library | DOERR, A. (Text) Fiction |
31010300261411 |
Available - |
| Harrison Public Library | DOERR, A. (Text) Fiction |
31010400115285 |
Available - |
| Harrison West Harrison Branch Library | DOERR, A. (Text) Fiction |
31010400115632 |
Available - |
| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31011151429776 |
Available - |
| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31011151430543 |
Checked out 05/04/2024 |
| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | DOERR, ANTHONY (Text) Fiction |
31016151773180 |
Available - |
| Irvington Public Library | FIC DOERR, A (Text) Fiction |
31012154377426 |
Available - |
| John C. Hart Memorial Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31030155061294 |
Checked out 04/27/2024 |
| Katonah Village Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31013151911084 |
Checked out 05/01/2024 |
| Larchmont Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31014153013580 |
Available - |
| Larchmont Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31014153017805 |
Available - |
| Lewisboro Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Available In Storage |
31032151416910 |
Available - |
| Lewisboro Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31032151416936 |
Available - |
| Mamaroneck Public Library District | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152632049 |
Available - |
| Mamaroneck Public Library District | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152635497 |
Available - |
| Mount Kisco Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31017100342846 |
Available - |
| Mount Pleasant Branch Library | FIC DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31024250749705 |
Available - |
| Mount Pleasant Public Library | FIC DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31024153771103 |
Available - |
| New Rochelle Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31019156684089 |
Available - |
| New Rochelle Public Library | DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31019156891858 |
Checked out 04/11/2024 |
| North Castle Public Library | FIC DOE (Text) Fiction |
31001152000312 |
Available - |
| North White Plains Branch | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31001250769610 |
Available - |
| Ossining Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31021101859402 |
Available - |
| Ossining Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31021153455356 |
Available - |
| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31025152501961 |
Available - |
| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31025152501979 |
Available - |
| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31025152626487 |
Available - |
| Pound Ridge Library District | FIC DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31026151035506 |
Available - |
| Ruth Keeler Memorial Library | F DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31020150805449 |
Available - |
| Rye Osborn Branch Library | FIC DOE ADAMS (Text) Fiction |
31028200086548 |
Available - |
| Scarsdale Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31029154390621 |
Checked out 04/12/2024 |
| Scarsdale Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31029154450821 |
Available - |
| Somers Library | FICTION DOERR (Text) Fiction |
31031151992904 |
Checked out 05/03/2024 |
| Next 50 » | |||
