On Another Planet They Can Save Me by Marsman, Lieke

On Another Planet They Can Save Me (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781646223541)

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Format: Hardcover
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On Another Planet They Can Save Me by Marsman, Lieke

On Another Planet They Can Save Me

$26.00
On Another Planet They Can Save Me by Marsman, Lieke

On Another Planet They Can Save Me

$26.00
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying and genre-defying memoir charting Lieke Marsman's unflinching journey through a terminal cancer diagnosis and a raw search for meaning in a world that offers none

In 2017, poet and novelist Lieke Marsman was diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer. After being told her illness was incurable, Marsman embarks on an intellectual journey that challenges the limits of the rational, secular worldview she once trusted. As she undergoes radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and multiple surgeries--including the amputation of her arm--she turns to theology, philosophy, mythology, and science in an urgent quest for hope.

Marsman weaves the arguments of Christian thinkers with quantum physics, and the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein and William James with Greek mythology. Her research and reflection eventually transforms into an obsession with UFOs--and the manifold implications for us on Earth if life does, in fact, exist somewhere out there. She explores the possibility that meaning--or even salvation--might lie outside the boundaries of what we know. Extraterrestrial life becomes a poignant metaphor for faith itself: "When everything in the here and now turns out to be utterly hopeless, I allow myself to think: On another planet they can save me."

The result is a poetic, philosophical, and fearless exploration of living with illness and death and nonetheless cultivating hope in the face of the unknown.

Author: Lieke Marsman
ISBN-10: 1646223543
ISBN-13: 9781646223541
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
By Lieke Marsman
By Lieke Marsman
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LIEKE MARSMAN is a writer and former Poet Laureate of the Netherlands, widely regarded as one of the most compelling voices in Dutch literature. She published her debut poetry collection, Things That I Tell Myself, in 2010 at the age of twenty, earning three major poetry prizes. In 2018, Marsman was diagnosed with bone cancer. Her first novel, The Opposite of a Person (2017), was longlisted for the ECI Literature Prize. The English edition, also translated by Collins, was published by Daunt Books in 2022. On Another Planet They Can Save Me was published in the Netherlands in 2025 and became an instant bestseller. Lieke Marsman lives and works in Amsterdam.

SOPHIE COLLINS is the author of Who Is Mary Sue? (Faber, 2018) and small white monkeys (Book Works, 2017). She is the translator of Lieke Marsman's The Opposite of a Person (Daunt Books, 2022).

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