Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?" Lewis provides an engaging retelling of one of the most popular myths from antiquity with what The Saturday Review called "new meaning, new depths, new terrors." With his trademark insightfulness, Lewis reminds us of our own fallibility and the role of a higher power in our lives. Lewis wrote this, his last novel, to retell their story from the perspective of Psyche's sister, Orual: "I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. In this, his final-and most mature and masterful-novel, Lewis reminds us of our own fallibility and the role of a higher power in our lives.įascinated by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C. Told from the viewpoint of Psyche's sister, Orual, Till We Have Faces is a brilliant examination of envy, betrayal, loss, blame, grief, guilt, and conversion. Lewis-the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics-brilliantly reimagines the story of Cupid and Psyche. Lewis reworks the timeless myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction in.
Lewis signature book"-Back cover.Ī repackaged edition of the revered author's retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche-what he and many others regard as his best novel.Ĭ.
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