Cloud Cuckoo Land

Among the most celebrated novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a soaring tale of imagination, resilience, and hope. Set across three timelines, it follows Anna, an orphan in 15th-century Constantinople who discovers a rare ancient book; Omeir, a village boy conscripted into the army laying siege to that city; and Konstance, alone aboard a future interstellar ship, copying the same story. In present-day Idaho, Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of this timeless tale, unaware of the danger lurking nearby. Their lives—along with that of a troubled teenager planting a bomb—intertwine in a powerful exploration of the enduring power of stories to connect us across time and worlds.