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Cloud Cuckoo Land
- Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Simon Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
‘There is magic in this place … You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you’
Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope.
Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.
‘Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope – all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages’ Observer
‘Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing’ Financial Times
‘This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read’ Daily Mirror
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‘Sets him comfortably alongside Tolkien, Rowling and David Mitchell, and he is a much more elegant writer than two of those … Cloud Cuckoo Land is an impressive achievement and a joy to read. Serious novels are rarely this fun.’ The Times
‘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’ Guardian
‘A paean to stories as a source of sustenance and solace, and to the sweetness of our shared terrestrial home, Doerr’s narrative is buoyant with humanity and it’s author’s palpable pleasure in invention’ Daily Mail
‘A humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences. Cloud Cuckoo Land is ultimately a celebration of books, the power and possibilities of reading’ New York Times
‘Cloud Cuckoo Land is a fascinatingly ambitious tale that’s worth the seven year wait’ Stylist
‘Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Doerr’s new novel traverses time and space, unifying his characters through a text written by Diogenes in the first century AD. Cloud Cuckoo Land begins there and sweeps through the millennia in a huge, imaginative arc that celebrates the outsiders, the writers and the keepers of books. An ultimately hopeful and life-affirming novel about the essence of love, literature and art’ Irish Independent
‘This is a dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books – one for David Mitchell fans’ Guardian
‘Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope – all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages’ Observer
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-06-22
An absorbing story
After a slow start getting into this book I found the story of the different characters & times fascinating. It was well narrated with the right tone & pitch. Highly recommended.
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- J. Hughes
- 25-01-23
What a surprise!
Anthony Doerr has done it again! Different from All The Light We Cannot See but just as good, just as spellbinding. I was entrapped by this novel and couldn’t wait for the next part to reveal what happened next, it’s not a rollercoaster but is intriguing as it steadily builds. He has woven such a wonderful story that threads its way backwards and forwards through characters in time and space. Each character has their own story but all are interlinked. It may start gradually …..but hang on in there …… it is worth every minute of listening!
I will listen again!
Thank you Mr Doerr…. I can’t wait for your next book.
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- JEREMY P.
- 31-01-23
A must read!
Absolutely incredible storyline, weaving tapestries between the stories. Beautifully written and narrated. An engaging listen which will totally hook you.
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- Dr. John Collins
- 20-11-22
A land to live in!
What a wondrous book! Transports to other worlds…. imaginative, inventive, creative, and life-affirming. A joy!
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- liz brown
- 18-01-23
Amazing
Great book and beautifully read. Superb dystopian fiction from the wonderful Doerr. Highly recommend a listen
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The interweaving of the different eras
Beautiful written. I gave up on it because it seemed to complicated but went back to it because I thought the writing was excellent. I'm so glad I did it's a fantastic book. I hope they make a film of it!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-09-22
Make a new edition with a different narrator
Loved the story. It was a good idea to have two narrators, but the leading one was slowing down the story as if she just learned to read and has only one way of how to read a story to a child. I ended up speeding to 1.35 speed to be able to finish the book!
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- Anonymous User
- 16-06-24
Cloud cuckoo land
I didn’t feel it worked well as an audible book. The structure of story is complex enough without having had the help of chapter titles. It’s hard to keep track of who’s who and when’s when
and retracing it’s steps backwards to help sort them out is always hard on audible anyway.
I felt quite angry with it at times - why dies it have to be so opaque? It feels like trying to be too clever. I ploughed my way through it but then, when I’d understood the structure and a sense of the characters and story, I re listened at 1.5 speed and pulled it together. I also caught onto things I’d not got the implications of first listen.
I enjoyed it much more in retrospect.
Although I disliked the narration of the donkey I felt it had an important role and acted as a spine for other stories. I appreciated the perspectives of the journeys through trials and tribulations and the different kinds of resolutions of the different tales. I enjoyed characters, resolution and situation of the sci fi one most, and found it intriguing. I also enjoyed learning about the bits about the old languages, ways of storytelling, differing functions of libraries throughout time as well the range of different characters and how relationships developed.
Overall I enjoyed the listen but felt it was harder to grasp than it would/should have been to read it.
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- Zohanigan
- 20-02-23
Need focus!
Really interesting stories all connected and yet totally separate. You’ll need to focus and get ready to rewind occasionally but all the parts are gripping and the characters need to be heard. Great!
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- Carol Ann Hann
- 06-02-23
Absolutely fabulous loved every minute spent on listening to this book
The love of art of the written word to bring joy and hope to the reader is so special and this book achieves this across the millennia of time.
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