The Hair Carpet Weavers
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Andreas Eschbach
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Doryl Jensen (Translator)
In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the absurdity of work and of life itself.
'A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions through the working out of an intricate and ultimately satisfying plot, with echoes of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov' The New York Times Book Review
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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 06/08/2020
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ISBN: 9780241454725
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Length: 320 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach
The New York Review of Science Fiction
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A novel of ideas that evokes complex emotions through the working out of an intricate and ultimately satisfying plot, with echoes of Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov
The New York Times Book Review
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Eschbach is a novelist with vision, with compassion, and with a sense of tragedy, of character, of spectacle, and of human possibility, and also human inevitability ... An unforgettable, beautiful, perpetually entertaining novel
Orson Scott Card
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An outstanding work
John Clute
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A world-class SF voice
Locus
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The Carpet Makers will blow you away ... clever, insightful, entertaining and satisfying
Analog
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A magnum opus ... Even more astounding, it was Eschbach's debut
Kirkus
