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S'està carregant… Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel (2021 original; edició 2021)de Anthony Doerr (Autor)
Informació de l'obraCloud Cuckoo Land de Anthony Doerr (2021)
  
Books Read in 2023 (224) » 13 més Books Read in 2021 (715) Books Read in 2022 (4,081) FAB 2022 (12) Obama Reads (4) READ IN 2022 (182) Summer Reading 2023 (12) Indie Next Picks (83) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I just finished. I’m teary-eyed and my heart is full. I hate to leave Cloud Cuckoo Land but I must return home. (  ) sharishaw49 | Sep 20, 2023 |  4.5/5 I finished Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land earlier today and my head is still spinning. With multiple POVs and timelines spanning over 500 years and beyond, Cloud Cuckoo Land has elements of sci-fi, fantasy , contemporary and historical fictional with allusions to classic Greek mythology and explores multiple themes such as environmentalism and conservation of the planet , human beings’ instincts for survival in the face of strife and war and of course, the impact of literature and the need for preserving the written word. In 1453 Constantinople, we meet young Anna a seamstress who discovers an ancient manuscript while searching for valuables to pawn in decrepit and abandoned library building .Omeir , born with cleft lip and palate and labeled as cursed on account of his birth defect, lives in exile with his family in on the outskirts of his native village in Bulgaria. He is conscripted with his oxen into the Ottoman army who are advancing towards Constantinople to lay siege . In 2020 we have Zeno , an octogenarian Korean War veteran and POW survivor , who frequents his local library in Idaho and spends his time translating an ancient Greek fable while also planning a children’s play based on the same. Seymour is a teenager on the spectrum, also residing in Idaho , whose environmentalism takes a radical turn . In the not-so-distant future we meet Konstance, a fourteen year old girl on an interstellar ship, Argos, heading away from what we understand is a ravaged earth towards a new planetary habitat. Isolated in a vault for safety on account of a virus that is spreading throughout the ship, she recalls from memory and tries to document an ancient story shared by her father .She relentlessly pursues its origins in the process of which she desires to explore her own family history on a planet she has heard of and visited only through simulated experiences. What connects these characters and their stories is the ancient manuscript depicting the story of Aethon, a shepherd whose search for the utopian kingdom in the sky , Cloud Cuckoo Land, takes him on a wild and fantastical adventure. If I were to consider each of these character’s trajectories and stories on individual merit , I would say that each of them were beautifully penned with engaging narrative and beautiful imagery. While I did enjoy the novel, I did find the multiple POVs and timelines spanning over 500 years initially confusing. When woven together, I did feel that the nonlinear format and jumping timelines took a while to get used to. I also felt that the end to Konstance’s story was a bit rushed. Give the detailed treatment of Anna and Omeir’s story I felt a bit shortchanged with how Konstance’s story was wrapped up. I would definitely recommend the book but with a note that it required a bit of patience on my part to read through the very detailed and at times repetitive descriptions in certain segments and I had to wait for at least one hundred pages of a 600 page novel to make sense of what was happening. In the end, I am glad that I did not give up. (I admit that I was tempted at the 50 page mark.)This is a complex but beautiful novel that is worth the time invested. The author beautifully depicts the timelessness of books and literature and the common thread shared by readers across place and time while also while paying a tribute to libraries and librarians across generations. "But books, like people, die too. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safe-guarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death." (  ) srms.reads | Sep 4, 2023 | I read this for a book club and really enjoyed the many interconnected stories. I was wondering how everything would come together and I was pleased when they did. ( ) Pferdina | Sep 2, 2023 | What a ride! I was slow on the uptake with all of the various threads set in different places and times, but once I got the flow of things I couldn't stop listening. Mythology, magical realism, historic and current events, as well as the future all woven together and animated by such vivid characters and original voices. You too will "slip the trap" as the tale draws you in. ( ) rebwaring | Aug 14, 2023 | The book starts out slow but really draws one in. Really made me reflect on appreciating the "now" we are in whatever timeline that might happen to be. We cannot change the past but can work towards a better future. (  ) Anamie | Jul 28, 2023 |
Yes, libraries are awesome, and we all love books. But the artificial convolutedness of “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is not enough to confer any additional depth on Doerr’s simple, belabored theme, a theme that thumps through the novel insisting that every character kneel in reverent submission. Doerr does not overstate the importance of the story-within-a-story. If anything, he makes a point of reminding us again and again how easy it is for books to be lost across the ages — the staggering number of histories, tales, songs, account books, speeches, poems and stories that never made it through the meatgrinder of history....There are no heroes or villains, no global plots, no secret societies bent on controlling this lost manuscript. There's just a book thief, a boy and his ox, a messed-up kid who lost his best friend, a man putting on a children's play, a girl talking to a supercomputer....It is a book about books, a story about stories. It is tragedy and comedy and myth and fable and a warning and a comfort all at the same time. It says, Life is hard. Everyone believes the world is ending all the time. But so far, all of them have been wrong.It says that if stories can survive, maybe we can, too. This is a novel so full that, if it can be said to be 'about' anything, perhaps it is about how things survive by chance, and through love. But the book is also keenly aware of the fact that humans have basically exhausted our chances, and it is time for a fierce and tenacious love to step up – by sharing and passing on what is mended and changed, like Diogenes’s book, with its delights and consolations – to save what we still have on Earth, and what is ours, as well as what we enjoy here, though it isn’t ours ... With all its tenderness for human life and animal life, and libraries, this novel nevertheless acknowledges that civilisation continues to insist on not going anywhere without packing its poisons. “Cloud Cuckoo Land" ... is, among other things, a paean to the nameless people who have played a role in the transmission of ancient texts and preserved the tales they tell. But it’s also about the consolations of stories and the balm they have provided for millenniums. It’s a wildly inventive novel that teems with life, straddles an enormous range of experience and learning, and embodies the storytelling gifts that it celebrates. It also pulls off a resolution that feels both surprising and inevitable, and that compels you back to the opening of the book with a head-shake of admiration at the Swiss-watchery of its construction. “Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you” wrote Antonius Diogenes at the end of the first century C.E.—and millennia later, Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr is his fitting heir. Around Diogenes' manuscript, "Cloud Cuckoo Land"—the author did exist, but the text is invented—Doerr builds a community of readers and nature lovers that transcends the boundaries of time and space....As the pieces of this magical literary puzzle snap together, a flicker of hope is sparked for our benighted world. PremisDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML:AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2021 On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more "If you're looking for a superb novel, look no further." ??The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize??winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a "wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that's infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences" (The New York Times Book Review). Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna's will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon's story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr's dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, ou No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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