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Laddar... Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021)av Anthony Doerr
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. This book is an extraordinary testament to the power of a single book. In this case, a lost copy of a work by Antonius Diogenes - loosely translated as Cloud Cuckoo Land. The work moves across time and place from the 15th century siege leading to the capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans, into the 20th and 21st centuries around a small town in Idaho, and a perhaps not-so-distant future and spaceship traveling to a new world. Anthony Doerr captures both your attention and imagination as he traces the survival of an obscure text across the centuries. More significantly, we realize the impact this book has on each stop of its life. The book received tremendous praise and deserves every bit. ( ) I really admired the structure of this book, the way the interconnections are slowly revealed. The characters are interesting, and, especially in the cases of Zeno and Seymour, poignant. My one nitpick, if you have a librarian character, do not name her marian. Every time I came across her , music man would go through my head and take me out of the story. This feels like a heartfelt ode to the powers of storytelling and all the little ways humans are connected to one another. Although not everyone is going to vibe with the multiple POVs, time jumps, and slow reveals, I thought those aspects made the book uniquely enjoyable and were well-executed. Every chapter was its own treasure.
Yes, libraries are awesome, and we all love books. But the artificial convolutedness of “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is not enough to confer any additional depth on Doerr’s simple, belabored theme, a theme that thumps through the novel insisting that every character kneel in reverent submission. Doerr does not overstate the importance of the story-within-a-story. If anything, he makes a point of reminding us again and again how easy it is for books to be lost across the ages — the staggering number of histories, tales, songs, account books, speeches, poems and stories that never made it through the meatgrinder of history....There are no heroes or villains, no global plots, no secret societies bent on controlling this lost manuscript. There's just a book thief, a boy and his ox, a messed-up kid who lost his best friend, a man putting on a children's play, a girl talking to a supercomputer....It is a book about books, a story about stories. It is tragedy and comedy and myth and fable and a warning and a comfort all at the same time. It says, Life is hard. Everyone believes the world is ending all the time. But so far, all of them have been wrong.It says that if stories can survive, maybe we can, too. This is a novel so full that, if it can be said to be 'about' anything, perhaps it is about how things survive by chance, and through love. But the book is also keenly aware of the fact that humans have basically exhausted our chances, and it is time for a fierce and tenacious love to step up – by sharing and passing on what is mended and changed, like Diogenes’s book, with its delights and consolations – to save what we still have on Earth, and what is ours, as well as what we enjoy here, though it isn’t ours ... With all its tenderness for human life and animal life, and libraries, this novel nevertheless acknowledges that civilisation continues to insist on not going anywhere without packing its poisons. “Cloud Cuckoo Land" ... is, among other things, a paean to the nameless people who have played a role in the transmission of ancient texts and preserved the tales they tell. But it’s also about the consolations of stories and the balm they have provided for millenniums. It’s a wildly inventive novel that teems with life, straddles an enormous range of experience and learning, and embodies the storytelling gifts that it celebrates. It also pulls off a resolution that feels both surprising and inevitable, and that compels you back to the opening of the book with a head-shake of admiration at the Swiss-watchery of its construction. “Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you” wrote Antonius Diogenes at the end of the first century C.E.—and millennia later, Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr is his fitting heir. Around Diogenes' manuscript, "Cloud Cuckoo Land"—the author did exist, but the text is invented—Doerr builds a community of readers and nature lovers that transcends the boundaries of time and space....As the pieces of this magical literary puzzle snap together, a flicker of hope is sparked for our benighted world. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
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