Anthony Doerr is the author of the New York Times bestselling Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Alex Award, and a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.
Praise for Anthony Doerr and Cloud Cuckoo Land *WINNER OF THE
READING THE WEST BOOK AWARD AND THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARD* "Sweeping
and atmospheric."
--Time "A magical (and hopeful) tale of humanity."
--People "As intimate as a bedtime story, a love letter to
libraries and bibliophiles."
--O Magazine "A dazzling epic of love, war, and the joy of
books."
--The Guardian "A novel of epic stature and ambition."
--Buzzfeed "[An] intricately braided story . . . [and] a stunning,
mind-bending tale of survival and how closely we're all
connected."
--Good Housekeeping "Doerr works literary magic to tell three
cleverly entwined stories set centuries apart, celebrating
children, and the natural world, and always, especially, libraries.
We'll be talking about this one for a long time."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Packed with lush details and a gripping
narrative."
--Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair "A trip well worth taking with the
inimitable Doerr."
--Rob Merrill, Associated Press "Of all our contemporary fiction
writers, Anthony Doerr is the one whose novels seem to be the
purest response to the primal request: tell me a story. . . .
[Cloud Cuckoo Land] transports us far above the stars, and down
into the mud. It dazzles, and disturbs. And I for one wanted
Doerr's vast and overwhelming story to last much, much longer."
--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air "Sprawling and ambitious and
imaginative. . . . [Doerr] is a writer with the rare ability to
achieve the universal and the specific simultaneously. His stories,
both vast and intimate, are dazzling, sometimes dizzying in their
scope. . . . [Cloud Cuckoo Land] is unlike anything you've ever
read."
--Samantha Schoech, San Francisco Chronicle "Readers will come away
from it with a greater appreciation for those invisible qualities
that have bound human life across the ages--the love of a good
story and the joy of returning home."
--Samantha Spengler, Wired "There's no book like Cloud Cuckoo
Land... the story is mesmerizing, and the carefully-crafted
tapestry of themes pulls characters and time periods together into
an incandescent whole--tempting the reader to start over as soon as
the book is finished."
--Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Forbes "Doerr's prose casts a spell; his
world-building is both defiant and tender, a virtuosic meditation
on the alchemy of books. Come for the magician's tricks, stay for
the exquisite storytelling."
--Hamilton Cain, Star Tribune "The greatest joy in [Cloud Cuckoo
Land] comes from watching the pieces snap into place. It is an epic
of the quietest kind, whispering across 600 years in a voice no
louder than a librarian's."
--Jason Sheehan, NPR.org "Doerr's creation lifts off quickly,
soars, and then, like the various wildfowl wheeling through the
story, lands with practiced finesse. . . . Fueled by deep
imagination and insistent compassion, Doerr weaves together his
storylines with brisk pacing that never feels rushed."
--Erin Douglass, Christian Science Monitor "There is a kind of book
a seasoned writer produces after a big success: large-hearted, wide
in scope and joyous. Following his Pulitzer winner All the Light We
Cannot See, Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is a deep lungful of
fresh air-and a gift of a novel."
--Elizabeth Knox, The Guardian "In a big fiction year . . . Cloud
Cuckoo Land stands out. . . . Doerr's characters are astoundingly
resilient, suggesting that we may yet save ourselves, with
literature an essential tool."
--Hamilton Cain, Boston Globe
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