![]() Anna and Omeir’s loss of a home and family triggers a journey towards each other. The legacy of legends and what, through story and translation, can become legend itself.Įach character in the novel has a story studded with loss. Through their stories, Doerr explores the power and potential of legacy. ![]() In his novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr weaves together a story across time and space, all the while asking the question, “What happens when stories get lost in translation?” And so, across the 622 lyrical pages of Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr writes the stories of orphaned Anna, village boy Omeir born with a harelip, interstellar Konstance, veteran and octogenarian Zeno Nenis, and troubled Seymour. We find ourselves lost in translation trying to express what we love and we are lost in translation when we don’t have the words to say what we wish. ![]() “Lost in translation” is a modern way of saying we’ve miscommunicated, often unwittingly. This is a story about getting lost in translation. ![]()
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