Cloud Cuckoo Land

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION PICK OF 2021
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA's FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See . He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector ; the novel About Grace ; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome . He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. Klappentext THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian 'There is magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you' Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity's last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself. 'Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages' Observer 'Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing' Financial Times 'This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read' Daily Mirror Vorwort the new novel and Sunday Times bestseller from the author of All the Light We Cannot See Zusammenfassung THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian

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Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
All the Light We Cannot See. He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian***'There is magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you'***

Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity's last hope.

Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.

'Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages' Observer

'Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing' Financial Times

'This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read' Daily Mirror

Zusammenfassung
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books' Guardian