Book: Cloud Cuckoo Land
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Harper Collins
Here is another awaited book of the year; from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr comes a book on the triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story of resilience, hope – Cloud Cuckoo Land releasing in September.
About the book
Bound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world around them: thirteen-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.
Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflect our own vast interconnectedness – with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be hereafter we’re gone. Dedicated to ‘the librarians then, now, and in the years to come’, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship – of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart.
Book: A House Full of Men
Author: Parinda Joshi
Publisher: Harper Collins
A contemporary fiction centred around women by bestselling author Parinda Joshi. A House Full of Men is a novel about false starts and failed attempts, love and the importance of being understood.
About the book
Twenty-five-year-old Kittu has left Lucknow only on two occasions in her life. The first trip involved the last rites of her grandmother. The second involved a wedding, thankfully, but she returned home to her mother’s funeral. She has never forgiven her mother for leaving her alone in a house full of men. Is there anyone at home she can share her deepest thoughts with? Anyone who can lend an ear to her endless relationship issues, manic obsessions and simple aspirations? Who’s got the time? Kittu might live in a full house, but sometimes, she feels like she’s all alone in the world. A House Full of Men is a novel about false starts and failed attempts, love and the importance of being understood.
When everything is lost,
it’s our stories that survive.
