Curious and headstrong, Anna manages to learn to read, and she comes into possession of the story of Aethon. Orphan Anna lives with her sister in Constantinople, making a meager living embroidering robes for priests. He longs to be turned into a bird so he can go there, and he ends up taking a roundabout route to achieve that goal. All these characters are connected by one story, written on an ancient manuscript in Greek, about Aethon, a man who hears of a paradise in the sky populated by birds. IN SHORT: This historical fiction book that incorporates science fiction is a paean to books and the power of story.Ī girl living in Constantinople at the time of its fall to the Ottomans, a teen boy with a cleft palate living in Bulgaria at that same time a man living in Idaho who was taken a prisoner during the Korean War and then freed to return to his small town a loner teen boy with sensory and anxiety issues led to plant a bomb in the library in that same small town in Idaho a girl traveling deep in space on a ship bound for a distant planet.
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