I wanted this novel to reflect those anxieties, but also offer meaningful hope, so I tried to create a tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness - with other species, with each other, with the ones who lived before us, and the ones who will be here after we’re gone. ‘The world we’re handing our kids brims with challenges: climate instability, pandemics, disinformation.

Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Zeno, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and misfits struggling to survive and finding resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril. The book will be published by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins UK.ĭoerr’s critically acclaimed 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See sold 1.8 million copies in print, ebook and audio editions in British Commonwealth and 9.3 million copies worldwide, and was the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize.Ĭloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now.Ī single copy of an ancient text – the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land – provides solace, mystery, and the most profound human connection to these five unforgettable characters. The All the Light We Cannot See cast also includes Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey.New book alert! Cloud Cuckoo Land, the new novel by Anthony Doerr, the author of the bestselling Pulitzer Prize winner All the Light We Cannot See, will be published in September 2021.

The actor appeared in the movies such as Holmes & Watson, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Sense and Sensibility, and Spice World. He has also appeared in the TV shows The Night Manager, Veep, Catch-22, Blackadder, and Spooks. He won an Emmy in 2020 for his role in I Know This Much Is True, and has also worked on the TV shows The Beat, What If.?, and She-Hulk.

He has also appeared in movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 13 Going on 30, Zodiac, Shutter Island, and The Adam Project. Ruffalo is best known for portraying one of the strongest Marvel heroes, Bruce Banner, a.k.a. He's eccentric and suffering PTSD from World War I.

Hugh Laurie plays Etienne LeBlanc, who's part of Marie-Laure and Daniel’s family. Ruffalo plays Daniel LeBlanc, Marie-Laure's father who's a locksmith at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo also star in the limited series. Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo in All the Light We Cannot See

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