![]() ![]() Seymour is a neurodivergent child who befriends a great grey owl he names Trustyfriend. Zeno is a shy child, orphaned after his father is killed in World War II, who goes on to serve in the Korean War. Anna is a young orphan living in Constantinople before the Ottoman siege Omeir is a Bulgarian boy born with a cleft lip who is enlisted into the Ottoman troops. The book begins by introducing the five main characters and Aethon’s story, as fictitiously discovered by the real-life Greek philosopher Diogenes. These chapters jump from character to character, switching perspectives throughout. ![]() The 24 folios of Aethon’s story introduce each chapter. All the plots are connected through the Cloud Cuckoo Land folios, a fictitious Ancient Greek story that follows Aethon as he endeavors to find a utopia known as Cloud Cuckoo Land. The characters are: Anna and Omeir in and around 15th-century Constantinople Zeno and Seymour whose plots converge in 2020 and Konstance, who lives in the future. The plot follows five main characters through three timelines. ![]()
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