“Faber's great strength, trotted out right from the opening pages - this ability to write believable, lovely, flawed and inept characters. It’s a love story, and the last line destroyed me.” -Emily St. offers exactly what I crave: a state of mingled familiarity and alienness that leaves us with questions we can’t answer - or forget.”- Ron Charles, Washington Post I relished every chance to cloister myself away with “The Book of Strange New Things”. Despite its bizarre setting and all the elements of an interplanetary opera, this is a novel of profound spiritual intimacy. Even beyond its power as a story of cross-cultural encounters, and the questions it makes you ask about the place of humanity in the universe, Book of Strange New Things is also worth reading as a great personal story of a man and his wife, as their relationship faces the ultimate test.Fantastic.”- io9.com
“ The Book of Strange New Things will blow you away.Powerful. “Faber illustrates, movingly, the impossibility of adequate communication in the face of life-changing experience. Faber is a genuinely gifted storyteller and his novel gains resonance and tidal force in its final third.” -The New York Times A lovely, thought-provoking meditation on love and faith and the never-ending mysteries of the natural world.” -Entertainment Weekly A vivid portrait of a distant galaxy, reinforced by a narrative that is deeply, emotionally evocative.” -USA Today Faber reminds us there is a literature of enchantment, which invites the reader to participate in the not-real in order to wake from a dream of reality to the ineffability, strangeness, and brevity of life on Earth.” -Marcel Theroux, The New York Times Book Review (cover review) The Book of Strange New Things squeezes its genre ingredients to yield a meditation on suffering, love and the origins of religious faith. Selected by Financial Times’ David Mitchell as a Favorite Book of 2014Ī Barnes & Noble Fiction Selection, Top Books for the Holiday SeasonĪ ShelfAwareness Best Books of 2014 Honorable Mention A Minnesota Public Radio Best Books of 2014 Selection Publishers Lunch news editor Sarah Weinman’s best of the year list, honorable mention Selected as one of Kansas City Star’s 100 Best Books of 2014 Selected as one of the Independent’s Books of the Year 2014Īn io9.com Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2014Ī Guardian Writers Pick of 2014, Selected by Jackie Kay
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