A weaver masterpiece

On a distant planet, men are passed from father to son and immemorial sacred task: hair weave mats. For what purpose? He adorn the imperial palace for the ruler of the holy men, the immortal Emperor, had never to set foot somewhere else where it might get hurt.
This arduous task requires the whole life of a weaver to complete one carpet and pass his legacy and his art to his only son, for there can be only male descendant ...
Yet rumors in recent years among some heretics, the rumor that the emperor was overthrown by rebels.
But this can only be because the carpet again and again continue to leave their world to the distant stars ....
And if everything was false?

First novel from German Andreas Eschbach, hair carpet of dollars has been a bombshell in its release. And for good reason, as a first novel, the author Teutonic book a masterpiece total literary work.
Consisting of a series of news related to the same universe and where alternating moods with these fantasy worlds weavers and SF purest with this galactic empire and this endless war. Without ever falling into the facility, the author defies all expectations and that as of the fall of the first news. By playing shots, Eschbach built a beautiful world and scoring with a great cast of characters including the Emperor himself (the monologue of it is establishing itself as one of the greatest speeches ever written) or archivist Emparak constitute the organ points.
Not content to draw up a teeming universe, wonderful characters and write with a poetry that defies the traditional pitfalls of writing, it has the luxury to offer us a plot that keeps in suspense until the last page, until this final revelation both stupid and terribly fearful about the rationale of hair carpet, as if, even on the scale of the cosmos, human stupidity and vanity was not a drop of water but multiplied to take an unimaginable dimension.
Both book universe, poetry, space opera, fantasy and suspense book, hair carpet Billions must be part of your library and your culture if you aspire to not die stupid!
A masterpiece.