âThere is magic in this place ... You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find youâ
Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanityâs last hope.
Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.
âWonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope â all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pagesâ Observer
âIngenious, hopeful and totally absorbingâ Financial Times
âThis engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-readâ Daily Mirror
Anthony Doerr is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, currently in development as a Netflix limited series. He is also the author of two short story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, all published by 4th Estate. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Libraryâs Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Story Prize. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.