Anthony Doerr's New Novel Spans Centuries, Yet Fits Together Like Clockwork
Cloud Cuckoo Land follows four people in very different times and places, all connected by an imaginary manuscript — also called "Cloud Cuckoo Land" — by a real author, the philosopher Diogenes.
In 15th century Constantinople, a young girl scales the high walls of an abandoned monastery said to be haunted by spirits who carry their chamberlain through the broken halls on a throne made of bones.
In the 1940s, in Lakeport, Idaho, a boy follows his father to a new job, a new life and, eventually, a new war.
In 2020, a troubled teenager sits in his car outside the Lakeport public library, a gun in his pocket, a bomb in the backpack beside him.
In 2146, mission year 65 of the Argos
