The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
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The Book of Strange New Things
Michel Faber
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How far would you go on faith? Peter Leigh, the protagonist of Michel Faber’s new novel, will go anywhere God asks.
...is cool because it's a remarkable work of imagination and genius. A 'poignant meditation on humanity,' a mesmerizing exploration of faith and love and a 'genre-defying' masterpiece.
...Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things uses intergalactic travel and planet colonization as a backdrop, even a mechanism, to explore complicated emotional terrain.
Here's the overview of the novel: Peter, a Christian pastor, has been accepted to go on a mission to a planet in another galaxy, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spread the Gospel to the – what should he call them? Creatures? Beings? – living there.
The Book of the title refers to the copy of the Bible that a preacher named Peter Leigh brings with him on the missionary trip of a lifetime, to a planet named Oasis ...Faber’s interests here lie with faith, belief and the ways in which we know and bear responsibility for one another ...Leigh is sent off by his wife at the start of the story, which Faber captures in perfectly disjointed writing, mixing the events leading up to his liftoff in much the same way one would find memories combined, overlapping.
...also a meditation on the nature of religious faith, a theme that also dominates Faber’s latest novel, The Book of Strange New Things.
The new novel is set in the not-too-distant future. Peter and Beatrice Leigh are a young English couple on their way to Heathrow. Both are born-again Christians. As Faber tells us many times throughout this 500-page book, Peter has a checkered past.