![]() ![]() The library was like this place just full of portals to other worlds, and other lives, and other times. “Books, for me, have always been a way to slip out of the confines of my own boring, white, bald-man life. Why read novels at all? Doerr, in an interview last month with Pen America, gives one reason, Those of us interested in transportation are always looking out for these disruptions. In Idaho, the Internet causes militants to be able to radicalize teens. ![]() The Ottomans destroy the longstanding walls of Constantinople with cannons. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has selected places where new technology is disrupting the status quo. ![]() Konstance discovers the virtual library in the spaceship Anna is illicitly learning to read Greek and finds Italians from Umbria who collect old books Omeir learns the value of books from Anna: and the Lakeport librarians befriend Zeno and Seymour. ![]() The five main characters all find the Greek story when they need it most, and all have a relationship with a librarian or with a curator of books. In the 20 th century, living in Lakeport, are Seymour and Zeno (named for Zenodotus, first librarian of Alexandria), as well as some wonderful librarians. In the 15 th century readers meet Anna, an orphan in Constantinople, and Omeir, a boy with a cleft palate in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. The book begins with Konstance, traveling in spacecraft named Argos with her parents in the 22 nd century to a distant planet, BetaOph2, to escape pollution, droughts, and wildfires on Planet Earth. ![]()
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