What an amazing book! Contains three, linked stories, one set in the past (around 1453 and the siege of Constantinople), one in the present (in Idaho) and one in the future (decades from now). The stories are bound together by an ancient book, by storytellers, by libraries. Anthony Doerr is such a wonderful storyteller himself. The book is a paean to books and is dedicated to “the librarians then, now and in the years to come.” |