The Martian

A strange and haunting tale in which an earthly life is shaped by an unseen guiding spirit from another world. An imaginative romance blending the everyday with the uncanny and otherworldly.

At a glance Some novels take an ordinary life and quietly thread the impossible through it, so that… The Martian is one such story, blending realistic portraiture with a touch of the… What it's about The novel follows the life of its central figure, an account of… The narrative moves through the textures of an ordinary human life, friendship, love…

The novel follows the life of its central figure, an account of character and experience shadowed by the presence of a guiding influence said to come from beyond this world, from Mars.