Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021
Five storylines across centuries (a Byzantine siege, 1940s occupied Idaho, a generation ship in the future) all connected by a single ancient Greek manuscript. Doerr's post-Pulitzer novel is as ambitious as *All the Light We Cannot See* and rewards every page.
The case against
Doerr runs his Pulitzer playbook again: plucky children, timelines braided around a talismanic object, prose buffed to a gleam. Five storylines means each gets a fraction of a novel, and Seymour, the radicalized eco-terrorist, gets the thinnest one. If you've read any generation-ship fiction you will clock the Konstance twist early. Generous, humane, engineered; you can hear the machinery hum.
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