Amongst them is five-year-old Konstance whose curiosity for the planet they left, is becoming an obsession. I n an interstellar generation ship named Argos, eighty-six people are hurtling through space some six decades after Earth ceased to be able to maintain life. Synopsis of Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Set in disparate locations and times, the only similarity between the three is the mastery of their storytelling.Ĭloud Cuckoo Land takes that mastery, adds wordsmith skills that the Bard himself would envy, and produces an epic tale spanning centuries and featuring seemingly completely unrelated characters interlinked with extracts from an 1800-year-old codex which has been translated by one of the characters. And none more so than Anthony Doerr.Ĭloud Cuckoo Land is the third of his novels I’ve read in as many months (luckily for me, Jack seems to be on a mission to read everything Doerr has ever published and is unable to walk past a bookshop without browsing by author under ‘D’) and each one has been wildly different. I’ve read many excellent books since returning to the UK and immersing myself in the magical world of paperbacks, and I’m immensely grateful to all those authors whose words have brought me such joy and transported me to different worlds through multiple eras. A nthony Doerr’s writing makes me want to give up any pretence at being a writer and find something else to do with my life.
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