Anthony Doerr -- "Cloud Cuckoo Land"

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Tuesday, Sep 27, 2022  6:30pm - 7:30pm

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Anthony Doerr will speak about his new book, Cloud Cuckoo Land, on Tuesday, September 27th at 6:30pm, at *Boulder Theater* (2032 14th Street). Tickets to attend are $20, and are available from Boulder Theater.

About the Book:
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 Anna’s will cross.

In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s 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.

Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own.

IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION

*Tickets to attend are $20.

*This event is at Boulder Theater (2032 14th Street).

*Books purchased at this event will be discounted.

*Masks are encouraged for all attendees.

Anthony DoerrIn addition to Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, currently in development as a Netflix limited series. He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, all published by Scribner. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.