Large Print Material
Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 1982189673
- ISBN: 9781982189679
- ISBN: 1982189673 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781982189679 : HRD
- ISBN: 1982189673
- ISBN: 9781982189679
- Physical Description: 1136 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers--another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world--or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's story through her father"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Large type books Idaho Fiction Istanbul (Turkey) History Siege, 1453 Fiction Space and time Fiction Books and reading Fiction Children Fiction |
| Genre: | Novels. Science fiction. Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 14 of 15 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 15 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethel Public Library | LT DOERR (Text) | 34030148195149 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ALP DOE (Text) | 33260000557141 | Adult Large Type | Recently Returned | - |
| Brookfield Library | F/DOERR LARGE PRINT (Text) | 34029150574662 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | LP FIC DOE (Text) | 34014149492812 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | LP FIC DOE (Text) | 34014149492820 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Doe Large Print (Text) | 33180148084719 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | LP FIC DOERR,A (Text) | 34026150707698 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Killingworth Library Association | LP FIC DOE (Text) | 33420149187990 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | DOERR Anthony (Text) | 34013152389246 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
| New Milford Public Library | LP F DOERR (Text) | 34021147462275 | Adult Fiction Large Type | Available | - |
