Cloud Cuckoo Land

BOOK DESCRIPTION

In the mid-fifteenth century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. In a house of women who embroider the robes of priests, she learns to read, and is drawn to an ancient story of a shepherd who yearns to be turned into a bird.

Five hundred years later, in a library in present-day Idaho, octogenarian Zeno translates the very same story for a group of children, unaware of the danger bearing down on them. And in the future, aboard an interstellar ship, a girl named Konstance uses the tale to make sense of her own isolated existence.

A dazzling, multi-layered novel about the ways stories connect us across space and time, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.