Cloud cuckoo land : a novel / Anthony Doerr.
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SoundPublisher: [New York] : Simon And Schuster, 2021Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 12 audio discs (approx. 15 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781797128528; 1797128523Subject(s): Children -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | Books and reading -- Fiction | Space and time -- Fiction | Interstellar travel -- Fiction | Libraries -- Fiction | Istanbul (Turkey) -- History -- Siege, 1453 -- FictionGenre/Form: Audiobooks.DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3604.O34 | C56 2021abRead by Marin Ireland and Simon Jones.Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross.
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Compact disc.
Read by Marin Ireland and Simon Jones.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna's will cross.
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