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    Anthony Doerr’s Libraries of Wonder

    by Louisa Ermelino Jun 21, 2021 4 minutes

    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 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 about Aethon, who wants

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