![]() The first story is occurs in 1452-53, in the attack on Constantinople. The story is actually based on a few extant fragments of The Wonders of Thule, the remainders of an 1800 year old manuscript by Antonius Diogenes, according to a note by Doerr. ![]() Successively, he is transformed into a donkey, a fish, and a crow before he finds the city and gains admission at the gates. The story that ties these three together is of Aethon the shepherd who embarks on a quest to find a mythical city in the clouds where all his questions will be answered and longings met. ![]() I guess my response, having read the book, would be to say, “It’s complicated….”įor one thing, it is complicated as a story, really three stories occurring in three time periods of five people whose lives are tied together by another story. The novel won a Pulitzer Prize and I couldn’t wait to see how he would follow that tour de force. ![]() I thought Anthony Doerr’s All the Light You Cannot See one of the best novels I’ve read in the past twenty years. Summary: A story of five characters living in three time periods, whose lives are tied together by the story of Aethon the shepherd written by Antonius Diogenes. ![]()
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