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Doerr, Anthony
Cloud cuckoo land / Anthony Doerr
London : 4th Estate, 2021
Titolo e contributi: Cloud cuckoo land / Anthony Doerr
Pubblicazione: London : 4th Estate, 2021
Descrizione fisica:
626 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780008478292
Data:2021
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese:
xx
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Abstract:
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a 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. Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries.