Labyrinth of love
Oct 01, 2021
4 minutes
By Elizabeth Knox
There is a kind of book a seasoned writer produces after a big success: largehearted, 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. The story crystallises around a book within a book, the existence of which is imagined by Doerr, though its author is a real writer of the ancient world.
Antonius Diogenes’s Cloud Cuckoo Land is a fabulous adventure story written by Diogenes for his niece, to beguile and console her during an illness. It tells of
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