Michel faber, author of book of strange new things will. Hillary kelly is the digital media editor at the new republic. Called to a mission of a lifetime, peter travels lightyears from his wife, bea, to an astonishing new environment. Dec 19, 2014 michel fabers latest and quite possibly his last novel is truly a strange story or at least premise, when taken at face value. Peter leigh is a christian missionary recruited by an organization known as usic to be the pastor on a distant planet called oasis. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Oct 30, 2014 the book of strange new things treads familiar territory michel fabers bestseller, the crimson petal and the white, captured the feel of victorian london. In my opinion the book of strange new things is michel fabers second masterpiece, quite different to the crimson petal and the white but every bit as luminescent and memorable.
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A married christian preacher man is launched into space the jump intended for the distant planet of oasis, in order to pacify and proselytise the local alien populace, in what we eventually learn is a corporate arrangement between usic. The book of strange new things, the 2014 science fiction novel by michel faber, is one of those books that sealed me in a barrel, rolled me down a hill, off a cliff, into rapids and over a waterfall. The book of strange new things quotes by michel faber. An adaptation of michel fabers praised 2014 book the book of strange new things, the story revolves around peter leigh, an english pastor who embarks on the journey of a lifetime into deep. The book of strange new things brings up so many questions and i kept asking myself how i would deal with being on a planet light years away, far from home and family. The book of strange new things treads familiar territory michel fabers bestseller, the crimson petal and the white, captured the feel of victorian london. The book of strange new things, by michael faber, study guide is written using the kindle version. Michel fabers storytelling is at full force in this new novel. Then there is the undertone of bittersweet sadness that comes from the fact that the authors wife was dying of cancer as he wrote this. Dec 25, 2014 the book of strange new things by michel faber genre fiction, science fiction, metaphysics published october 28th 2014 by hogarth first published october 6th 2014 a monumental, genredefying.
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