Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (4th Estate)

The spectacular and heartbreaking new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.

There is magic in this place. You just have to sit and breathe and wait.

Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines that exceed time and space limits. Anna and Omeir during the 1453 siege of Constantinople, naturelover Seymour and kind Zeno in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship in a future. 

They all have something in common, the story of Aethon, who wants to become a bird and fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land. 

Anthony Doerr is a master storyteller and the book is magnificent. The characters are enchanting and the book soothes the soul. 

There are no bounds for dreamers and outsiders. Hope and love find their way even in a great danger.

Highly recommended!

5/5