![]() ![]() Konstance, 14, lives aboard The Argos, a spacecraft launched 65 years earlier headed to a distant planet that is to be man's new home. Doerr uses this imagined tale to tie his characters together, even though they are separated by geography and time. ![]() Moreover, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of works that we know of but have been lost, some of them comedies about men being transformed into donkeys. ![]() On his journey he is turned into a donkey, a fish and a crow.Īlthough there is no actual ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ there was a first century writer named Antonius Diogenes. The ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ in the novel is a first century tale written by Diogenes that tells the story of Aethon, a foolish shepherd who leaves home in search of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a fictional place where there is no pain and turtles walk around carrying honey cakes on their backs. Anthony Doerr tells their stories in ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ a book that he calls a “paean to books.” A story that allows them to “slip the trap” of their fear or misery. Five characters living in three different centuries and four different places are all saved by a story. ![]()
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