Till We Have Faces - by C.S. Lewis

This is definitely one of my favorite books of all time. Have read it at least three times. It is a powerful re-telling of the Greek love story between Psyche and Eros through her sister Orual.

C.S. Lewis chose "Till We Have Faces", which references a quotation from the book by Orual, "How can the gods meet us face to face till we have faces?" He defended his choice of title by describing the novel's importance to the human condition in a letter to Dorothea Conybeare, explaining that the idea behind the title was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from superhuman beings; "that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask, veil, or persona."

I give this books 5 stars out of 5 stars