<p>"A beautiful and stirring meditation on how we might rediscover our belief in the future, in spite of our hopeless times."<br /><b>William Davies, author of <i>Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World</i></b><br /><br />"I never got the memo that acting smart was about making people feel paralysed. I was only ever in it to spark some hope. It’s nice to have a buddy – gives me hope – and I ... hope this lovely little book will be your buddy too. I really hope. The real thing. The antidote, the genuinely future future."<br /><b>Timothy Morton, author of <i>Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology<br /></i></b><br />“Soulful … a rousing case for holding onto hope even, and perhaps especially, in times of hardship. This is sure to lift readers’ spirits.”<br /><b><i>Publishers Weekly<br /></i></b><br />“As a philosopher, Han has a spiritual bent … But his basic premise doesn’t have to be religious; it suggests only that the world contains untold potential, that what we see in front of us isn’t all that there will ever be.”<br /><b>Joshua Rothman,<i> The New Yorker<br /></i></b><br />“this stirring book will strike a chord with many readers”<br /><i><b>Front Porch Republic<br /></b></i><br />“a beautiful book on the nature of hope”<br /><b>Nick Cave,<i> Red Hand Files<br /></i></b><br />“one of the most popular philosophers of the current era”<br /><i><b>ArtReview<br /></b></i><br />“this call to mental arms offers flickers of needed inspiration”<br /><i><b>The Arts Fuse</b></i></p>