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Cargando... Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel (2021 original; edición 2021)por Anthony Doerr (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Wonderful. I could go on reading this forever. ( ) 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. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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HTML: El esperado regreso del autor de La luz que no puedes ver, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, con una ambiciosa novela llena de imaginacin y emocin sobre el poder de la palabra escrita. Los jvenes hroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que los rodea: Anna y Omeir se encuentran en lados opuestos de las magnficas murallas de Constantinopla durante el asedio de la ciudad en 1453; el idealista Seymour est inmerso en un atentado contra una biblioteca en una pequea ciudad de Idaho en la actualidad, y, en un futuro no muy lejano, Konstance viaja a bordo de una nave interestelar que se dirige a un nuevo planeta. Todos ellos son soadores que encuentran fuerza y esperanza en la adversidad... y todos estn unidos por un libro escrito en la antigua Grecia que narra un viaje excepcional. Demostrando una vez ms su maestra, Anthony Doerr ha creado un prodigioso tapiz de tiempos y lugares que es un homenaje a la extraordinaria capacidad de los humanos para transmitir historias de generacin en generacin. Ciudad de las nubes es un triunfo de la imaginacin y de la emocin que nos transporta a otras evocadoras realidades y que a la vez nos recuerda que estamos irremediable y maravillosamente conectados a los dems, al mundo, a quienes vivieron en l antes que nosotros y a quienes lo harn cuando nos hayamos marchado. *Finalista del National Book Award de ficcin *Uno de los libros ms esperados del ao para The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Irish Independent, Time, Entertainment Weekly, NPR.org, Buzzfeed, CNN.com, EOnline, PopSugar, Fortune, BookRiot, LitHub, USA Today La crtica ha dicho: Un libro humano y optimista para adultos que est impregnado de la magia de la experiencia de leer en la infancia. Ciudad de las nubes es una celebracin de los libros, del poder y las posibilidades de la lectura. Los manuscritos arden, s, pero el hecho de que nos hayamos aferrado a tantos de ellos y an nos resulte valioso leerlos es un aspecto de nuestra humanidad que esta novela celebra con justicia. Una deslumbrante y pica historia sobre el amor, la guerra y el gozo de los libros. Un logro impresionante y un placer de lectura. En un mundo en el que la naturaleza y las historias son ms que nunca algo precioso, este magnfico libro sirve a la vez como educacin, consuelo e inspiracin. Una parbola sobre la supervivencia humana fortalecida por la savia y tinta en frgiles manuscritos y el poder invencible de las historias. Deslumbrante... Una novela sobre cmo las personas encuentran esperanza en medio del caos y el miedo, y sobre cmo los propios libros podran ser lo mejor que los humanos han hecho nunca. El asombro y la desesperacin, el amor, la destruccin y la esperanza... Todo encuentra su lugar en la suntuosa trama de sus pginas. Uno de los placeres de leer Ciudad de las nubes es descubrir los hilos que unen las vidas de los personajes, que finalmente se cohesionan de un modo que resulta simplemente inolvidable, al igual que lo es el maravilloso regalo que supone esta novela. Un himno a las historias como fuente de sustento y consuelo, y a la dulzura de nuestro hogar terrestre comn, la narracin de Doerr desborda humanidad y el palpable placer de su... .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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