I think it's worth listening to the audio version over the print version, as it has wonderful production values, and clues that I picked up that I know I would have missed if I had only read the words on the page. But I stuck with it and was rewarded with a rich tapestry of people, eras, and stories that are expertly woven together by the author. I did find it frustrating, at first, because I couldn't understand the structure of the novel, as it does jump around quite a bit. You know that they are related somehow, but it takes reading most of the book to understand how all the pieces fit together. They take place at different times, and places, and are filled with vibrant characters. Each storyline is completely different from the others. There are really four stories going on here. So when I heard the author had finally written another book, I was eager to get my hands on it. She has never set foot on our planet.Īll The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr, is one of my favorite books of recent years. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. His path and Anna’s will cross.įive hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. 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. 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. 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. This did not influence the opinions in my review in any way. Please Note: I received an advance audio copy of this book from Libro.fm (and a print version from NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. KluneĪRC Review: The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle G.ĪRC Review: Never Saw You Coming by Erin HahnĪRC Review: The Living and the Lost by Ellen FeldmanĪRC Review: The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves Book Review: The Madness of Crowds by Louise PennyĪRC Review: You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen GlasgowĪudio ARC Review: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrĪRC Review: Under The Whipsering Door by T.J.
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