His story is funny at times and he is frustrated by the shape that he is. Aethon has a hare-lip, which separates him from those around him.
His is a ridiculous tale of transformation into a donkey, then a crow who seeks the golden castle in the sky where there is no war, plenty of food to eat and the ability to be transformed back into his unfortunate human form. Aethon, whose mishaps and adventures are the story in “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” originally written in ancient Greek. There is one more person's story being told. The engaging characters are Zeno, who in his eighties, lives in 2018 Seymour Stulman, also in our recent past Omeir with his two oxen at the tall walls surrounding the great city of Constantinople and Anna inside those walls, the where she discovers “Cloud Cuckoo Land” in a moldering tower library. Unlike our Earth, which faces all kinds of destruction every day, where we refuse to do what is needed to preserve our very small planet. This book has faced destruction many times but survived and influenced those who read it. Mostly the preservation of an ancient book called, “Cloud Cuckoo Land” from a time before history. But in this 622 page-turner, all five protagonists actually live and breathe within their independent lives: in the 1453 siege of Constantinople by the Saracens, within the 1980s, and in the 22nd century on a “generation ship” in outer space. Few characters have enough time to fully develop into heroes. Some of the novel occurs within a library in whatever time and location is being reported in these joined stories of five distinctly different characters.īooks with multiple characters and different eras are not a new thing. Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Doerr's (“All The Light We Cannot See”) 2021 release, Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner, ISBN 978-1-9821-8967-9) is dedicated to librarians: past, present, and future.
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