![]() ![]() Within that city, Anna, an orphan, works in an embroidery house - what we would call a sweatshop. Omeir is a teenager who's been conscripted into the sultan's army, laying siege to Constantinople. Meanwhile, other characters in this novel are enduring that terror. Konstance sits alone in a sealed room reading about the fall of Constantinople in the 15th century. The opening section here introduces us to Konstance, a 14-year-old girl who's a passenger on the Argos, a 22nd-century spaceship fleeing an Earth that's been ravaged by climate change. ![]() This imaginary story will sustain five young people, each of them living in dangerous times across the span of eight centuries. It's not only packed with stories, but it's about how stories can give us light and hope.ĭoerr makes up a comic novel from ancient Greece about a shepherd who yearns to turn into a bird and fly to a beautiful cloud cuckoo land. ![]() His latest novel, "Cloud Cuckoo Land," ups the ante. "All The Light We Cannot See," Doerr's 2014 novel set during World War II, was a hectic network of stories - love stories, war stories, coming-of-age stories. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Of all our contemporary literary fiction writers, Anthony Doerr is the one whose novels seem to be the purest response to the primal request - tell me a story. ![]() His much anticipated new novel, "Cloud Cuckoo Land," is just out, and our book critic Maureen Corrigan says it will not disappoint. Anthony Doerr's 2014 novel, "All The Light We Cannot See," won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. ![]()
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