Beautifully written, at times unsettling, always thought-provoking novel that takes the reader on a journey to a distant planet - and to the centre of the human soul.
"Mary Doria Russell is a former anatomist, has studied six languages, trained as a paleoanthropologist and is the author of scientific papers on subjects as various as bone biology and cannibalism. Her first novel, The Sparrow, won the 1996 James Tiptree Award, the 1998 BSFA Award and the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award and she has also won the Cleveland Arts Council Prize for Literature and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science Fiction. Her second novel, Children of God, is the sequel to The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and their son."
'One of those rare books that takes you to its heart and refuses to
let go'
*Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers*
'Compulsive reading and may be the year's best science fiction
novel'
*Mail on Sunday*
'Brilliant first novel about the discovery of extraterrestrial
life...Shades of Wells, Ursula Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke, with
just a dash of Edgar Rice Burroughs - and yet strikingly
original'
*Kirkus Reviews*
'One of the years's most powerful and disturbing books'
*The Times*
'A parable about human life on Earth, with all its imperfections,
failings, doubts, wisdom and erudition...The Sparrow is a
startling, engrossing and moral work of fiction'
*Colleen McCullough*
'One of those rare books that takes you to its heart and refuses to
let go' -- Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers
'Compulsive reading and may be the year's best science fiction
novel' -- John Clute * Mail on Sunday *
'Brilliant first novel about the discovery of extraterrestrial
life...Shades of Wells, Ursula Le Guin and Arthur C. Clarke, with
just a dash of Edgar Rice Burroughs - and yet strikingly original'
* Kirkus Reviews *
'One of the years's most powerful and disturbing books' * The Times
*
'A parable about human life on Earth, with all its imperfections,
failings, doubts, wisdom and erudition...The Sparrow is a
startling, engrossing and moral work of fiction' -- Colleen
McCullough
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