Pure Reader’s Delight

A review of Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’

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I first opened Anthony Doerr’s expansive new novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, in bed late one night about three weeks ago and couldn’t help sighing in the half-dark of our bedroom as I read. Apparently, after a few minutes, I began chuckling on and off. My poor wife was trying to fall asleep.