'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world…' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible – his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. This momentous novel, Faber's first since The Crimson Petal and the White, sees him at his expectation-defying best.
The Book of Strange New Things 4 csillagozás
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2014
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Kívánságlistára tette 6
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A brit lelkész elmegy hittéríteni egy távoli bolygóra, amelynek őslakosai már tudják, hogy „how sweet the sound”, de még nem jutottak el odáig, hogy megzavarja őket a „homousion vs. homoiusion” – micsoda ideális alapanyag. A hittérítéshez. (Meg a szerzőnek is, mert így nem teljesen nulláról kell bevezetnie a kereszténység koncepcióját a földönkívülieknek.) Sajnos a lelkész felesége otthon kell maradjon, a Földön, ahol nem várt dolgok (természeti katasztrófák) történnek. Mondhatni, semmi sem úgy alakul, ahogy várták. Kinek jobban, kinek kevésbé jól. Számomra pedig egy kicsit kevésbé meglepően, kevésbé fordulatosan. Élveztem az emberi drámákat (vagy néha épp azok szörnyen furcsa hiányát), de nem bántam volna legalább egy csavart. Elmegyünk egy idegen bolygóra, és a legmeglepőbb, ami történik, hogy az őslakosok már hallottak Jézusról? Nem rossz, de legalább egyszer hadd essek már le a székről.
Népszerű idézetek
She frowned. '"Naff"?'
'It's a British slang term, meaning trite or banal, but with an extra overtone of… uh… nerdishness. Uncoolness. Dorkishness.'
'Wow. Did they teach American slang in your Bible School too?'
Peter took a few swigs from a water-bottle. 'I never went to Bible School. I went to the University of Hard Drinking and Drug Abuse. Got my degree in Toilet Bowl Interior Decoration and… uh… Hospital Casualty Ward Occupancy.'
'And then you found God?'
'Then I found a woman called Beatrice. We fell in love.'
His whole life had been leading up to this
'The Oasans are pretty civilised, I've found. But it must be tough for you as a pharmacist not to have a clue what's going on with them health-wise.'
'Peter…' She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. 'Let's not go there.'
'That's what people always say about places where they already are.'
He realised for the first time that she was beautiful, too
All his life he'd been inside machines, whether he realised it. or not. Modern houses were machines. Shopping centres were machines. Schools. Cars. Trains. Cities. They were all sophisticated technological constructs, wired up with lights and motors. You switched them on, and didn't spare them a thought while they pampered you with unnatural services.
Looking back, almost certainly, that was when it happened
He remembered how, when he was a kid, he would play with the girl at the end of the street and she'd spray him with the garden hose and he'd jump to avoid it but get caught anyway, which was the whole point and pleasure of it. Knowing that it would get you, but that you wouldn't come to harm and you'd love it really.
Toppling off an axis, falling through space
We're standing here, breathing air into those funny spongy bladders we call lungs, our torsos shaking slightly from the pump action of that muscle we call a heart, our legs gettins uncomfortable from balancing on our foot-bones too long. We are souls shout inside a cage of bones; souls squeezed into a parcel of flesh. We get to hang around in there for a certain number of years, and then we go where souls go.
Looking back, almost certainly, that was when it happened
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