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3	''Cloud Cuckoo Land'' by Anthony Doerr is a 2021 novel following multiple different characters in several different timelines.
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5	In 1450s Constantinople, Anna and Omeir live on either side of the siege. In 1950s Korea, Zeno is an American prisoner of war. In 2020 America, a teenager attempts a terror attack on a library. In the far future, Konstance travels through the stars.
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7	Connecting each story is an ancient Greek text about Aethon, a man who turns from man to donkey to bird in search of a paradise in the sky.
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11	!!Contains examples of:
12	* AfterTheEnd: Implied with Konstance's story.
13	* AnachronicOrder: Chapters rotate between six main characters over five timelines.
14	* ChekhovsSkill: Konstance's father taught her all about plants, comparing a coconut's germination holes to a face. [[spoiler:Which is how she realized that a coconut tree found in a simulation of Earth was a fake generated by AI; it didn't have the germination holes]].
15	* {{Doorstopper}}: Just over 600 pages.
16	%%* FourLinesAllWaiting
17	* GenerationShip: The Argos. [[spoiler:Or so it seems. Earth simply didn't have the resources to build a spaceship; the Argos is actually a sealed building in Greenland]].
18	* GlobalWarming: A theme explored in Seymour's storyline, with some of the effects are shown in Konstance's.
19	* HumansAreBastards: Believed by Seymour.
20	* SpottingTheThread:Konstance finding the owls in the Atlas, and slowly realising the truth about the Argos.
21	* WorstAid: After her older sister Maria suffers a traumatic head injury, Anna desperately scrambles the money for a miracle cure in the form of blessed water... mixed with mercury and drank in a lead cup. Tragically, the cure was offered in good faith and nobody knew that she was slowly being poisoned.

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