What really binds them all, and one of the themes Doerr explores, is the timeless nature and necessity of storytelling. It helps that the characters in the sub-stories are so likable, even when, like a teenager named Seymour in modern-day Idaho, they’re under the thrall of an eco-terrorist group. Doerr’s ability to juggle all the stories and interlock them over the course of 600+ pages is quite a literary feat. Sound a little, well, cuckoo? It sort of is, but it’s also admirable in its ambition. How do you follow up a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction? If you’re novelist Anthony Doerr (“All the Light We Cannot See”) you write a story that consists of five separate stories, spans millennia, and all ties together with a fictional manuscript attributed to the ancient Greek novelist Antonius Diogenes called “Cloud Cuckoo Land.” “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) This cover image released by Scribner shows "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by Anthony Doerr.
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