I was so confused for much of this book. The jumping around of characters and the timeline left a slightly bitter taste in my mouth. She has her own coming of age and realization adventure. She reads about Seymour and Zeno and wants to know more. In the future, we have Konstance who lives on the Argos in the Mission Years 64+. Zeno is an outcast because of his skin color. Seymour is autistic and struggles as a child. Even his mother has issues knowing how to handle him. In the current time 2020, we had Seymour and Zeno. We had Omeir who felt like an outsider because he has a cleft palate and in those days they thought it was basically a mark of the witch or demon. The story revolves around Anna and Omeir in the 1400s in Constantinople their lives eventually cross and combine in the last section of the book.
It was an amazing book there is just such a cast of characters and bounces around that I can’t really give you a straight answer. Nevertheless, I was excited to read it.įirst, it’s really hard for me to review this book. I was daunted by the size all 620 pages of it. My co-editor, Kristin, originally received it, but seeing as it was more my genre preference than hers, she passed it off to me. We received many books to review and Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr was one of them.
**A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.** 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. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour.
His path and Anna’s will cross.įive 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. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army.
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. 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. 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.
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