About this product

Wilderness City is an enchanting novel about the power of books, a paean to the incredible human ability to pass down stories generation after generation.
Five misfits try to make sense of the world around them. In Constantinople in 1453, in a library in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship in the distant future, they each chase their dreams while fighting to survive.
Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno and Constance are connected by one battered copy of a two-thousand-year-old Greek text - the ancient story of Aethon, who longs to turn into a bird and fly to a utopian paradise.
Doerr has created a work that reflects our interconnectedness - with other peoples and with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we are gone.