Novela / conto com pornografia alienígena sádica e intensa tortura das mãos, talvez chamada de canção de Bird ou de Sparrow?

Este é O pardal (1996) de Mary Doria Russell.

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be "human".

De resumo detalhado do enredo da Wikipedia :

Sandoz becomes a slave/pet of a famed poet-songwriter, whose broadcasts first alerted Earth to Rakhat's existence. Sandoz is physically disfigured. [...] The flesh between Sandoz's metacarpal bones is cut away to make it seem that he has long elegant fingers like the hasta'akala plant (which grows on a stronger tree and is thus dependent). The disfiguration starts at Sandoz' wrists, and with which he cannot even feed himself. [...] It is later revealed the songs which Sandoz had originally considered to be a divine revelation are in fact a kind of ballad pornography celebrating rape, relating the songwriter's sexual exploits on broadcast to the populace.

O título não está em referência a uma canção de pássaro, mas um verso da Bíblia: "Não são dois pardais vendidos por um tostão? No entanto, nenhum deles cairá no chão à parte da vontade do seu pai. E até os cabelos da vossa cabeça estão todos contados. Então não tenha medo; você vale mais do que muitos pardais. ”(Mateus 10: 29-31) Referenciando como Sandoz sentiu que podia cair, perdendo sua fé em Deus.

Trecho de O pardal :

“There's an old Jewish story that says in the beginning God was everywhere and everything, a totality. But to make creation, God had to remove Himself from some part of the universe, so something besides Himself could exist. So He breathed in, and in the places where God withdrew, there creation exists."

So God just leaves?"

No. He watches. He rejoices. He weeps. He observes the moral drama of human life and gives meaning to it by caring passionately about us, and remembering."

Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine: Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it."

But the sparrow still falls.

Later on, Sandoz speaks this to the Cardinals:
“That is my dilemma. Because if I was led by God to love God, step by step, as it seemed, if I accept that the beauty and the rapture were real and true, the rest of it was God’s will too, and that, gentlemen, is cause for bitterness. But if I am simply a deluded ape who took a lot of old folktales far too seriously, then I brought all this on myself and my companions and the whole business becomes farcical, doesn’t it. The problem with atheism, I find, under these circumstances...is that I have no one to despise but myself. If, however, I choose to believe that God is vicious, then at least I have the solace of hating God.”