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The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
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Description for The Book of Strange New Things
Paperback. Michel Faber's first novel in twelve years. Soon to be Amazon original series Oasis in 2017 Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 398.
OASIS, an Amazon Original Series, coming in 2017 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . .' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart. ... Read more *This book has been printed with two different cover designs. We are unable to accept requests for a specific cover. The different covers will be assigned to orders at random.* Show Less
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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About Michel Faber
Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fire Gospel and The Fahrenheit Twins. He has also produced a poetry collection, Undying: A Love Story, two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has ... Read morewon several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. In 2017, The Book of Strange New Things will be adapted into Amazon Original Series Oasis. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK. Show Less
Reviews for The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber's second masterpiece, quite different to The Crimson Petal and The White but every bit as luminescent and memorable. It is a portrait of a living, breathing relationship, frayed by distance. It is an enquiry into the mountains faith can move and the mountains faith can't move. It is maniacally gripping
DAVID MITCHELL Magnificently bold and ... Read moreaddictive . . . a book quite unlike any other I've read
Edmund Gordon
Sunday Times
As gripping as any thriller . . . A work of originality and insight
Andrew Billen
The Times
There are some novels that come along, when writing a review seems superfluous and all one wants to do is to grab someone by the shoulders and say: Look, just read the damn thing! . This is one of them . . . In this thoughtful, deeply moving page-turner, Faber excels himself
Scotsman
I can't remember being so continually and unfailingly surprised by any book for a long time. I found it completely compelling and believable, and admired it enormously
PHILIP PULLMAN Michel Faber is a truly gifted writer, an addictive storyteller with an nuanced command of language. One of the best things I have read this year
Literary Review
Weird and disturbing, like any work of genius, this novel haunted me for the seven nights I spent reading it, and haunts me still. A story of faith that will mesmerize believers and non-believers alike, a story of love in the face of the Apocalypse, a story of humanity set in an alien world -The Book of Strange New Things is desperately beautiful, sad, and unforgettable.
DAVID BENIOFF, author of City of Thieves and co-creator HBO series, Game of Thrones The very notion of what it means to be human is grappled with in unusually direct terms . . . richly suggestive
Hannah McGill
Independent
Highly imaginative, unusual and thought-provoking
Katherine Whitbourn
Daily Mail
At the heart of The Book of Strange New Things is one question: Whom - or what - do you love, and what are you willing to do for that love (or not willing)? The result is a novel of marvel and wonderment with a narrative engine like a locomotive
YANN MARTEL Spellbinding, heartbreaking and mind-bending . . . Faber's strongest, most plangent and most intellectually gleeful novel. It is affecting as much as it is challenging. It not only made me want to read his next book, but re-read his backlist immediately
Scottish Review of Books
This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence
Guardian
The Book of Strange New Things is indeed strange: a page-turner which manages to subvert every narrative expectation; a book about the future that forces you to reconsider the role of religion; a book about aliens that is mostly concerned with human love. It left me in a state of wonder and devastation
KEVIN MacDONALD, director of One Day in September, Touching the Void and The Last King of Scotland You are unlikely to regret a single hour/day/month spent in Faber's diverting, exuberant and intelligent company
Financial Times
A novel of big ideas by a writer of unusual intelligence and lucidity
Independent on Sunday
Faber is a metaphysical author who writes with a wide-eyed sense of compassion and a simple, glassy beauty. Ultimately, his book stakes its own bold faith in our unique human capacity for love
Metro
So adroit is the storytelling, so slick is the cavalcade of vivid minor characters, from sinister doctors to fervent Bible-bashers, that you find yourself drawn into this eerily unfamiliar world, in which Christian and post-Christian values collide
Mail on Sunday
Faber eases ahead [of David Mitchell and Philip Pullman] as the apostle of our moment in and out of time
Herald
A great performance, and a mature one
Daily Telegraph
With its unadorned language and eerie, sincere sense of the power (and powerlessness) of faith, this is a haunting skin-crawl of a read
New Statesman
A creepingly claustrophobic story set in an apocalyptic future
Shortlist
A stellar achievement
The Australian
A novel about the limits of human emotion and the nature of faith. It questions what binds us together and is at times deeply unsettling, but also an astonishing book that resonated with me for weeks
Stylist
This is a rewarding novel, which engages with big ideas and serves up mysteries while keeping human relationships front and centre
SFX
Refreshing, strange and new
Curious Animal Magazine
What Michel Faber has done triumphantly is to write a lucid, unaffected novel about love, morals and faith (not just religious faith) which carries the reader through every one of its 600 pages
Spectator
[The Book of Strange New Things] is an examination of humanity. Startlingly tender and bold in conception, it offers a bleak vision of our future that also holds fast to the hope that, in Larkin's phrase, what will survive of us is love
Observer
Astonishing and deeply affecting
Guardian
Epic and disquieting . . . sucks you in and lingers for a while after you finish reading
Emerald Street
The Book of Strange New Things is unshowy and philosophical; the kind of science fiction where the sense of jeopardy comes from the battle maintain love, faith and understanding in crisis conditions, rather than showdowns between diverse life forms, and is all the more thought-provoking because of it
Sunday Express
Seeps under the skin like the windy, wet atmosphere on Oasis . . . Written with almost unbearable restraint, [this] is a loving, very sad piece of work
Financial Times
Wondrous
Bookmunch
Highly recommended
The Lady
Utterly captivating
Irish Independent
A brilliantly original and quite gripping tale of love, humanity and faith
Connaught Telegraph
Faber examines the ways in which physical distance can irreparably alter even our closest relationships His astute observations make this novel a worthwhile read
Totally Dublin
The Book of Strange New Things succeeds as science fiction, because it examines the effect of unfamiliar, imaginary situations on the human psyche - it's a laboratory for the soul, and that's a workplace for which Michel Faber has shown himself to be particularly suited.
Herald
The author pulls off such a feat of imagination and persuades the reader that it is reality
Metro
Astonishing... as Faber tests the limits of language - and how much of a world can be conveyed in a word - he displays language's greatest power, to make strange things familiar and familiar things startlingly strange
Observer
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