The Hair Carpet Weavers

Author: Eschbach, Andreas

Science fiction

Published on 6 August 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Science Fiction' series.

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