Every time she turned around, I had to go scurrying back into research. Q: Of your five main protagonists, who was the most challenging to write?Ī: Probably Anna, a young girl growing up in Constantinople in the 1440s. I loved researching and imagining his life: trying to conjure up the richness, color, superstitions and mythologies of his day-to-day existence. His is a world where every event, from a thunderstorm to the birth of a calf, throbs with supernatural meaning. Omeir, for example, is a boy growing up in the 15th century in the mountains of what we would now call Bulgaria. I chose these traits because I wanted to show that even characters with the seemingly smallest parts to play in history can significantly affect lives in the future.Ī: Probably the distant past. They all act, ultimately, with great decency and courage, and they all love stories. Q: Please describe one trait your diverse characters have in common.Ī: They’re all deeply curious. No matter how separate we might seem - whether by culture, space or time - we are all connected to each other, to our ancestors, to our great-grandchildren and to the other species with which we share this planet. This is a ticketed event.Ī: If there’s a single theme in “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” it’s connection. Warwick’s and USD’s College of Arts and Sciences will present Doerr this Friday at 7 p.m.
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