The Hair Carpet Weavers
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454718
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Hair Carpet Weavers

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20 Oct 2020
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1 Jul 2020
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A mind-expanding space opera from one of Germany's most acclaimed science-fiction writers

In the dusty wastes of a far-flung planet, strange artisans toil. Like their fathers before them, they tie intricate knots out of the hair of their wives and daughters, slowly forming carpets. Delicate and unique, each carpet requires an entire lifetime of work - and all will be sold to pave the Emperor's palace.
Then, one day, the empire falls. Soon, strange men begin to arrive from the stars, in search of the carpets' true destination. What they discover will astonish them . . .

Combining brilliant world-building with an irresistible sense of mystery, Andreas Eschbach's acclaimed space opera is a compelling meditation on faith, fundamentalism and the meaning of life itself.
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241454718
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for The Hair Carpet Weavers

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

A world-class SF voice

Locus

The Carpet Makers will blow you away ... clever, insightful, entertaining and satisfying

Analog

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

German SF has recently produced at least one new writer on the world stage: Andreas Eschbach

The New York Review of Science Fiction

An outstanding work

John Clute

A magnum opus ... Even more astounding, it was Eschbach's debut

Kirkus

A tale of empire, indoctrination, and extravagant revenge, that begins on a world where men dedicate their lives to weaving excruciatingly complicated carpets out of their wives' hair

Rosanna Mclaughlin, The White Review, Books of the Year
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