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Original Title:	The Sparrow
ISBN:	0449912558 (ISBN13: 9780449912553)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Sparrow #1
Characters:	Emilio Sandoz, Jimmy Quinn, Vincenzo Giuliani, John Candotti, Johannes Voelker, Edward Behr, Sofia Mendez, Anne Edwards, George Edwards, Alan Pace, Felipe Reyes, D.W. Yarbrough, Marc Robichaux, Supaari, Askama, Hlavin Kitheri
Setting:	Borgo Santo Spirito, Rome,2059(Italy) Arecibo,2019(Puerto Rico) Naples,2060(Italy) …more San Juan,2019(Puerto Rico) Rakhat,2039 …less
Literary Awards:	Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (1998), Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (2001), British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel (1997), John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1997), James Tiptree Jr. Award (1996) Puddly Award for Science Fiction (2001)

The Sparrow (The Sparrow #1)

Mary Doria Russell

Paperback | Pages: 516 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 56629 Users | 6920 Reviews

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Title	:	The Sparrow (The Sparrow #1)
Author	:	Mary Doria Russell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 516 pages
Published	:	September 8th 1997 by Ballantine Books (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Religion

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In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be "human".

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I love when I skim through pages of reviews of a book and they are nearly all either 5 stars or one star. Only a really good book produces that range of opinion! This is a really good book.The Sparrow is science fiction with class. It is well written, there is a satisfying amount of science fiction and then there is a whole lot more besides. Russell's greatest talent is in characterisation. I enjoyed every single one of the characters in this book and when I had to put it down and do other

Sometimes we are surprised and taken aback by a novel. Even when we have been told to expect something marvelous, we cannot be prepared for the depths to which it will take us and return us again. Such a one is The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell tackles the hard questions, the cosmic questions, the ones that have tortured man since his inception. She presents us with Job, Cain, and Christ, and without ever flinching from the moral dilemma that is mans lot, she presents them to us without imposing

I've hit page 199 of 'The Sparrow' and the viscosity of the text is increasing.By page 12, I had a lot of hope for this book. By page 88 I was really into the book, and thinking there was a good chance this was a 4 or 5 star book. At this point though, I'm not sure I can summon enough conviction up to finish it.Russell takes a gamble with her story of telling it from the beginning and end toward the middle, and relies extremely heavily on foreshadowing. Its high risk technique with a big payoff,

Irritating. Irritating prose, irritating philosophizing, intensely irritating structure, and SUPREMELY irritating characters. Honestly, a more annoying set of self-satisfied "witty" bourgeois assholes you will not find.

What a strange, accomplished nautilus of a novel, every chamber containing both joy and tragedy.

In the spring of 1636, Isaac Jogues, Society of Jesus, sailed from France to Quebec. He was part of a Jesuit party set out for the New World, to Christianise the native population of what was then called Nouvelle-France (a vast territory colonised by the Crown of France, that spanned from the Labrador and the Saint Lawrence River, to the Great Lakes, the Mississippi and Louisiana). Father Jogues settled in Ontario with a group of Jesuit missionaries, among the Iroquois, the Huron and the

If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which i admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what feel that matters.(4.25?) This was a beautiful and heart wrenching book. The characters were attaching and you can't help but root for them... but also cry with them. An interesting take on the first contact with alien trope.