Anthony Doerr Knows the Power of the Book By Louisa Ermelino | May 07, 2021
Do you remember reading a mammoth mesmerizing book that transported you to other worlds and times so that all you cared about was turning the next page? If so, I give you another one: Anthony Doerr’s new novel,
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Scribner), and I hope you have a comfy chair.
Doerr’s follow-up to his 2014 megaselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning
All the Light You Cannot See is an immersive, ambitious epic with three major story lines, moving between 1453 Constantinople, an Idaho library in the present, and a spaceship decades into the future hurtling toward a new planet. The connecting piece is an ancient text, written by the Greek author Diogenes about Aethon, who wants to become a bird so he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land.