Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Unabridged
13 hours 21 minutes
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Vpervye na russkom — novejshij roman Entoni Dorra, avtora knigi «Ves' nevidimyj nam svet», udostoennoj Pulicerovskoj premii; kak i etot mezhdunarodnyj bestseller, «Ptichij gorod za oblakami» vklyuchen v short-list Nacional'noj knizhnoj premii SSHA. Roman vystroen podobno matreshke (ili «Oblachnomu atlasu» Devida Mitchella): zdes' hitroumno perekreshchivayutsya zhizni i sud'by Anny i Omira, prebyvayushchih po raznye storony steny v osazhdennom turkami Konstantinopole 1453 goda, a takzhe pozhilogo entuziasta drevnegrecheskoj literatury Zeno i yunogo ekoterrorista Sejmura v sovremennom Ajdaho, a takzhe Konstancii, kotoraya letit k dalekoj ekzoplanete na korable «Argo» pod upravleniem vseznayushchej Sivilly. Podobno Mari-Lore i Verneru v romane «Ves' nevidimyj nam svet», vse pyatero zdes' — mechtateli i autsajdery, ne teryayushchie nadezhdy i posredi samogo besprosvetnogo, kazalos' by, haosa i otchayaniya: «'Ptichij gorod za oblakami' pokazyvaet, chto dlya nas eshche ne vse poteryano — i chto vazhnym instrumentom spaseniya yavlyaetsya imenno literatura» (Boston Globe) — naprimer, mificheskaya istoriya drevnego greka Aitona, mechtayushchego obernut'sya pticej i uletet' v skazochnyj zaoblachnyj gorod…
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