THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST-A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books- Guardian-There is magic in this place - You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you-Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity-s last hope.Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds.The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.-Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope - all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages- Observer-Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing- Financial Times-This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read- Daily Mirror