A soaring novel of resilience and story, connecting children across time from Constantinople to a future spaceship, seeking hope in a broken world.
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A soaring novel of resilience and story, connecting children across time from Constantinople to a future spaceship, seeking hope in a broken world.
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound fo...
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Brief mentions of sexual content and vulgar references; not central. Depictions of sexual violence and rape discussed; not central.
Frequent war scenes, graphic violence, and gore during sieges and battles.
Minimal use of strong language; not a focus of the narrative.
Brief mentions of alcohol use; not glamorized or central.
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Recurring references to religious settings like convents and rituals.
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Themes of environmentalism and climate change as plot devices.
Brief mentions of suicidal thoughts; not depicted on-page.
Child abuse, war-related suffering, and systemic cruelty depicted. Depictions of sexual violence and rape discussed; not central.
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