THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS – Michel Faber
Rating: 5/5
“We’re the aliens here.”
In a not so distant future, Father Peter Leigh is sent on a deep space mission to a new planetary settlement ‘Oasis’ as a Christian minister, even though all the human settlers on Oasis are atheists. Father Peter is appointed as a pastor not for the humans but for the native Oasans, the Jesus loving aliens who have demanded for a priest as a trade deal. Despite the science fiction premise which can be misleading as genre fiction, THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS (that’s what the native Oasans call The Bible) is a literary fiction of the highest order, a mesmerizing, atmospheric rumination on faith, philosophy, alienation and despair. Faber crafts the most articulate, exquisite sentences and makes them seem breezy. The brilliance of Faber’s syntax is so dazzling and intimidating, it reminds the…
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