5/19/2023 0 Comments Book review cloud cuckoo land![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Interwoven into this story’s retelling are an elderly South Dakotan, a young adult South Dakotan, two children in or near 14th-century Constantinople, and a teenager on a generational space ship heading toward a far-off planet. The Cloud Cuckoo Land of the title refers to a (very much fictional) lost and rediscovered ancient Greek manuscript about Aethon, a simple shepherd, who is turned into fish. It is also very much a genre work in the Vonnegut-ian mode, where the genre’s furniture provides a nice seat from which to look at life on Earth. This is a solid, well-told tale that doesn’t get lost in its own cleverness. Yet, despite the author’s Pulitzer-winning pedigree, Cloud Cuckoo Land is not pretentious, nor does Doerr show off his writing ability for its own sake. The story tells the truth about books and being a human by looking at both slantwise – and it sticks with you long after you’ve finished it. ![]() His voice is clear, strong, and gorgeous. 2021Īnthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land is hard to sum up for all of the best reasons. ![]()
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