![]() Doerr’s long-awaited follow-up, “Cloud Cuckoo Land. Doerr’s exaltation of storytelling, along with the Dickensian implausibility and sentimentality of some of the subplots in “All the Light We Cannot See,” earned him sneers from some of the “smarties” (as the poet Stevie Smith tartly dubbed highbrow critics). Elderly Zeno, who views his entire life as a series of missed opportunities, becomes. Doerr’s plotlines ingeniously crisscross and circle back on themselves and abruptly terminate. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Doerr has not lost the gift for making us love his characters, though. ![]() Like the streets of the model city that the loving father of that novel’s blind heroine constructs so that she can learn to navigate independently, Mr. Cloud Cuckoo Land is a book about a book, told through sets of characters in time periods in the past, present and future. Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set during World War II, was a hectic network of stories-love stories, war stories, coming-of-age stories, stories of devastation, courage and regret. ![]() “All the Light We Cannot See” (2014), Mr. ![]() ![]() Of all our contemporary literary fiction writers, Anthony Doerr is the one whose novels seem to be the purest, most full-hearted response to that primal request. ![]()
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