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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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