![]() After the Prologue, however, CCL leaves Konstance (the adolescent main character aboard the spaceship, Argos) and introduces the titular Cloud Cuckoo Land text credited to Antonius Diogenes (note his initials) and translated by Zeno Ninis in 2020. I did know there were a number of plotlines with their own characters that spanned many centuries of time, but I was a taken aback by its opening genre: science fiction. I had purposely read little about CCL before picking up my copy. When I dove into Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) earlier this month, I was surprised to find myself in a sci-fi future aboard an interplanetary ship in the novel’s prologue. Needless to say, I promptly preordered a signed copy of this new book (there are perks to living in the same town as a Pulitzer-winning author) from our local independent bookstore. I also admired his thoughtful development of adolescent main characters on both sides of WWII’s whose coming-of-age created such empathy for us readers. ![]() I loved how he played with technology (radio waves) and blindness in the novel (all the light we cannot see, indeed). ![]() His All the Light We Cannot See (2014) was touching and brilliant. ![]() When first I heard Boise, Idaho’s literary rock star, Pulitzer-winner Anthony Doerr, was at long last coming out with a new novel, I was elated. ![]()
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