A big warm cuddle of a novel loosely dressed in sci-fi trappings, The Humans presents a dyspeptic Cambridge don who may not be all he appears.
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE?
After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst an alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he's a dog.
Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race . . . ?
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781786894663
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 215 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm
Edition: Main
Matt Haig's hilarious novel puts our species on the spot - Guardian
A wonderfully funny, gripping and inventive novel. Like Kurt Vonnegut and Audrey Niffenegger, Haig uses the tropes of science fiction to explore and satirise concepts of free will, love, marriage, logic, immortality and mercy with elegance and poignancy - The Times
Great idea, great plot and superb comedy, especially from the alien's puzzled analyses of primitive human ways - Daily Mail
Matt Haig is a supreme talent and a writer to cherish, and The Humans is undoubtedly his magnum opus - Guardian
A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are - Charlotte Heathcote, Daily Express
Haig's unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter . . . Funny, clever and quite, quite lovely - Sam Baker, Sunday Times
Excellent . . . very human and touching indeed - PATRICK NESS
The Humans is tremendous; a kind of Curious Incident meets The Man Who Fell to Earth. It's funny, touching and written in a highly appealing voice - JOANNE HARRIS
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin - JEANETTE WINTERSON
A brilliant exploration of what it is to love, and to be human, The Humans is both heartwarming and hilarious, weird, and utterly wonderful. One of the best books I've read in a very long time - S.J. WATSON
Wow. I really loved this book! What began as a farcical comedy metamorphosed into palpable philosophy, in the most readable of ways! Entertaining and enlightening; you don’t have to be a fan of maths, or science, or... More
Review: what a funny yet thought provoking novel! I'd had this novel sat on my kindle for some time, but then I was lucky enough to meet this author in person and he was so funny and genuinely nice to talk to... More
Maths professor Andrew Martin has been "taken by the hosts" and replaced by an alien who takes his form. The Vonnodorian's are a race who believe Martin's solving of the Riemann hypothesis will... More
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