Cloud Cuckoo Land
$17.50 CAD • Used
DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; "In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable wa...
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DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; "In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Annas will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethons story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father."
Product Info
ISBN: 1982168439
ISBN-13: 9781982168438
Publisher: Scribner
Year: 2021
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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