CLOUD CUCKOO LAND

"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

"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

Anthony Doerr has won numerous prizes for his fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Carnegie Medal. His novel, All the Light We Cannot See was a #1 New York Times Bestseller and his new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, published in September of 2021, was a finalist for the National Book Award