Description: "Defiantly unclassifiable. . . . The Book of Strange New Things squeezes its genre ingredients to yield a meditation on suffering, love and the origins of religious faith. . . . 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) "Provocative, unsettling. . . . Truly hair-raising." --People "Eerie, elegant. . . . A lovely, thought-provoking meditation on love and faith and the never-ending mysteries of the natural world." --Entertainment Weekly "Eerie and ambitious. . . . Faber proves himself to be, as he was in Under the Skin, a warm surrealist. . . . [ The Book of Strange New Things is] a portrait of a marriage in extremis, and an unlikely love story emerges. . . . Faber is a genuinely gifted storyteller and his novel gains resonance and tidal force in its final third." --The New York Times "Harrowing, wrenching. . . . A bold and unexpected work of beauty. . . . Selfishly, I hope The Book of Strange New Things isn''t Faber''s last novel--but even if it is, what a note to depart on." --The New Republic "A wonderful adventure story, a quasi-science fiction tale and a probing examination of a marriage. . . . A truly strange and wonderful novel. . . . Please read The Book of Strange New Things . You won''t regret it." --Cleveland Plain-Dealer "A wonderful adventure story, a quasi-science fiction tale and a probing examination of a marriage. . . . A truly strange and wonderful novel. . . . Please read Michel Faber''s The Book of Strange New Things . You won''t regret it." --Cleveland Plain-Dealer "[A] masterpiece" -- Cosmopolitan "[Faber] approaches this interplanetary saga as an expert genre traveler. . . . [His] potent new amalgam of sci-fi and spirituality puts him within rocket range of David Mitchell." --New York "This is a big novel . . . but the reader is pulled through it at some pace by the gothic sense of anxiety that pervades and taints every element. . . . Astonishing and deeply affecting." --The Guardian "A novel so full of ideas, so charged by plot, so odd and wonderful, and written with astonishing emotional precision. . . . In this thoughtful, deeply moving page-turner, [Faber] excels himself." --The Scotsman "A hugely serious story about the testing of religious faith. . . . A work of originality and insight." --The Times "A moving human drama disguised as a gripping science fiction tale. . . . Magnificently bold and addictive. . . . A book quite unlike any other." --The Sunday Times "Spellbinding, heartbreaking and mind-bending. . . . The Book Of Strange New Things is Faber''s strongest, most plangent and most intellectually gleeful novel. . . . Bold, brave, brilliant." -- Scottish Review of Books " The Book of Strange New Things is Michel Faber''s second masterpiece, every bit as luminescent and memorable as The Crimson Petal and the White . It is a portrait of a living, breathing relationship, frayed by distance; it''s an enquiry into the mountains faith can move and the mountains faith can''t move. It is maniacally gripping and vibrant with wit. I didn''t so much read The Book of Strange New Things as inhabit it." --David Mitchell "Michel Faber''s The Book of Strange New Things certainly lives up to its title. Faber, as he showed in Under the Skin , does strangeness brilliantly. I can''t remember being so continually and unfailingly surprised by any book for a long time, and part of the surprise is the tenderness and delicacy with which he shows an emotional relationship developing in one direction while withering in another. I found it completely compelling and believable, and admired it enormously." --Philip Pullman "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 resultis a novel of marvel and wonderment with a narrative engine like a locomotive."-- Yann Martel "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, andunforgettable." --David Benioff

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