Anthony Doerr’s «Cloud Cuckoo Land»

An epic journey that takes its readers across centuries. A triumph of the imagination. A hopeful celebration of compassion. A love letter to reading. «[A] deep lungful of fresh air – and a gift of a novel» (The Guardian). Anthony Doerr’s «Cloud Cuckoo Land» is many things. Foremost, perhaps, it’s a book of and for our times. The New York Times describes this ambitious successor to the Pulitzer Prize-winning «All the Light We Cannot See» as «a wildly inventive novel that teems with life, straddles an enormous range of experiences and learning, and embodies the storytelling gifts that it celebrates». What does Doerr’s latest novel mean to you? Let’s find out together! We read sections of the book at home and discuss them together in class. Level C1