Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Cloud cuckoo land : (Record no. 61926)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field on1233266494
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20211026111126.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 210126s2021 nyu 000 1 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2021002936
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781982168438
Qualifying information (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1982168439
International Standard Book Number 9781982168445
Qualifying information (paperback)
International Standard Book Number 1982168447
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)on1233266494
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency BDX
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042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PS3604.O34
Item number C56 2021
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813/.6
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Doerr, Anthony,
Dates associated with a name 1973-
Relator term author.
9 (RLIN) 115584
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Cloud cuckoo land :
Remainder of title a novel /
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First Scribner hardcover edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Scribner,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 626 pages cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "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 for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers--another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Space
Form subdivision Fiction.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element The future
Form subdivision Fiction.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Libraries
Form subdivision Fiction.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Online version:
Main entry heading Doerr, Anthony,
Title Cloud cuckoo land
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Scribner, 2021.
International Standard Book Number 9781982168452
Record control number (DLC) 2021002937
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type F
Holdings
Lost status Collection code Current library Shelving location Full call number Barcode Number Koha item type
  Fiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Juvenile F DOE 34480000586028 F