The Humans - Softcover

Haig, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443423653 ISBN 13: 9781443423656

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013

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The bestselling, award-winning author of The Radleys is back with what may be his best, funniest, and most devastating dark comedy yet. When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned him and hurry back home to the utopian world of his own planet, where everyone enjoys immortality and infinite knowledge.

He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, and their capacity for murder and war, and he is equally baffled by the concepts of love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. Disguised as Martin, he drinks wine, reads poetry, and develops an ear for rock music and a taste for peanut butter. Slowly, unexpectedly, he forges bonds with Martin’s family, and in picking up the pieces of the professor’s shattered personal life, he begins to see hope and beauty in the humans’ imperfections and to question the mission that brought him here.

Praised by The New York Times as a “novelist of great seriousness and talent,” Matt Haig delivers an unlikely story about human nature and the joy found in the messiness of life on Earth. The Humans is a funny, compulsively readable tale that playfully and movingly explores the ultimate subject—ourselves.

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MATT HAIG is the author of the internationally bestselling book, The Midnight Library. He is also the author of the novels The Humans, How to Stop Time, and The Life Impossible, which was a Canadian national bestseller and a New York Times bestseller. He has also written a number of children’s books, including A Boy Called Christmas, which became a feature film, and three non-fiction books for adults.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1443423653
• ISBN 13: 9781443423656
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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