![]() ![]() And in the twenty-second century, Konstance, on her first visit to the virtual library, learns that she will not live long enough to complete the journey from an Earth that she has never seen to a more habitable planet. Inside that city, Anna, an orphaned girl who stitches needlework on religious garments, steals to raise money to pay for healing for her sick sister. Later, Omeir and his oxen are requisitioned for the siege of Constantinople. His family refuses to kill baby Omeir and are forced to find a new place to live. In the fifteenth century, superstitious villagers believe a baby born with a harelip is cursed and they blame him for the death of his father. Seymour Stuhlman, a troubled young environmental terrorist, enters the building carrying a backpack with explosive devices. In present day Idaho, octogenarian and Korean War veteran, Zeno Ninis, is in the public library with five children rehearsing a play. The lives of five characters are touched and transformed by the power of one book. ![]() Anthony Doerr, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light You Cannot See, masterfully binds three stories from three different eras together with a fictitious ancient fable. ![]()
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