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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

byAnthony Doerr

In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr builds a character-driven story in which family, place, memory, and private conflict continually reshape one another. Using character, setting, dialogue, and narrative tension, Cloud Cuckoo Land moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Cloud Cuckoo Land within fiction, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the novel continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2021-09

Format

Print edition

Pages

656

ISBN

9781982168438