A review by samahcanread__
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

adventurous emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

 Did you ever hold a copy of The Illiad or The Odyssey and thought, "where are the people who first heard the story?", and wondered how could something like this survive time itself?

Anthony Doerr created an epic story connecting five people; Zeno, an octogenarian Korean war vet; Seymour, a teenage idealist who is trying to understand the world around him; Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and cursed boy, on different sides of the 1453 siege of Constantinople; Konstance, decades from now on a ship to find a new Earth, and bound them through one ancient text.

It blows my mind how interconnected our lives are, the small invisible strings holding us together and creating a chain reaction for future things to come. All these people's stories leads to one thing; understanding their life and navigating through hard time with the magic of literature, or more specifically, an ancient text dating as old as ancient Greece.

I will hold this book so close to my chest. It's one of my favourite books now.