Michel Faber

lsserley es una mujer menuda con pechos grandes y perfectos, lleva gafas de cristales muy gruesos y escotes profundos que hacen olvidar sus ojos, y conduce su coche por carreteras solitarias de Escocia recogiendo autoestopistas. Pero al Toyota rojo de lsserley no sube cualquiera. Ella solo se detiene ante los hombres. Cuidadosamente elegidos. Siempre fornidos, saludables y solitarios que puedan desaparecer sin que su ausencia cause demasiado ruido.Pero lsserley no es simplemente una depredadora sexual. El primer enigma que nos plantea esta novela sorprendente es el de su cuerpo. Ese cuerpo lleno de cicatrices, torturado por los dolores de operaciones de cirugia plastica, con gafas que oscurecen y magnifican a la vez sus ojos. Y el segundo, el de su deseo. ¿Que hace con esos hombres que selecciona con tanto cuidado, esos jovenes vigorosos, saludables, seducidos por sus pechos? Y asi, de misterio en misterio, el lector comienza a sospechar que lsserley puede ser la puerta de entrada a un universo mucho mas terrorifico de lo que habia imaginado...Michel Faber es un narrador de una habilidad maquiavelica que, de la mano de su protagonista, un monstruo de la mejor especie, la especie de los que poseen un alma atormentada, nos seduce con una fabula cruel sobre el funcionamiento de las jerarquias de poder en las sociedades fundadas sobre la mercancia y la ganancia.

Cuando este libro arranca, el devoto pastor cristiano Peter Leigh está a punto de soltar la mano de su mujer, Bea (que lo rescató de una existencia errática de drogas y alcohol), y embarcarse en un reto evangelizador a la altura del siglo XXI. El destino que le aguarda, Oasis, no esta en esta Tierra: para llegar hasta el tiene que subirse a una nave y dar el Salto. Uno que le lleva a un lugar donde el aire se siente incluso cuando esta quieto, donde todos los alimentos salen de una sola raiz y donde el dia y la noche no son como los que conocemos. Un lugar que se reparten unos nativos bondadosos y henchidos de fe y unos colonizadores perfectamente entrenados que, en el ejercicio de sus labores, han aprendido a dejar todo aquello que los hace debileshumanosatras. Poco a poco, Peter aprende a comunicarse con los oasianos; les lee la Biblia (el Libro de las cosas nunca vistas) y construye una iglesia con ellos. Y, a medida que descubre que su mision es mas sencilla de lo que preveia, los problemas empiezan a surgir de rincones inesperados; en la base no todo el mundo es tan impasible, y los correos de su esposa Bea hablan de una Tierra que va de mal en peor: se hunde, azotada por desastres naturales, carestia y conflictividad social, y Bea se hunde con ella. Y cuando Peter, abstraido, no logra darle el consuelo q...

How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic and candid, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye. All I can do, in what remains of my brief time, is mention, to whoever cares to listen, that a woman once existed, who was kind and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget how the world was altered, beyond recognition, when we met.

''Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them...''So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for a mesmerising tale of passion, intrigue, ambition and revenge.

A curious book that will change your relationship with the heard world In Listen, Michel Faber's lifelong passion for music culminates in an intriguing exploration of two big questions: how we listen to music and why we listen to music. He muses on the notion of 'cool', delves into the rich lodes of commercial and aesthetic worth and interviews a panoply of people who experience music in different ways, unlocking some surprising answers

"Una macchina percorre piu volte al giorno una statale deserta nelle Highlands scozzesi. Alla guida c''e una donna, Isserley. Sembra che stia cercando qualcosa. All''improvviso nota sul ciglio della strada un giovane robusto seduto sul suo zaino, gli fa cenno di salire a bordo. Il ragazzo la ringrazia del passaggio, non ha motivo di diffidare di una bella ragazza dall''apparenza inoffensiva. La fattoria in cui Isserley lo conduce e una base sotterranea, un labirinto di cucine, camere frigorifere e gabbie in cui altre prede attendono di essere macellate. Isserley appartiene a un''altra specie, che si definisce umana per distinguersi da quella dei ""vodsel"", la razza inferiore che riempie le strade e le citta e che il suo popolo usa come cibo. I Vodsel siamo noi. "

Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?

Londra 1875. Dall'esile candela della sua stanza nel bordello della terribileMrs Castaway, Sugar, una prostituta di diciannove anni, la piu desiderata incitta, cerca la via per sottrarre il proprio corpo e l'anima al fango dellestrade. Dai vicoli luridi e malfamati Michel Faber ci guida, seguendo lascalata di Sugar, fino allo splendore delle classi alte della societavittoriana, dove violiamo l'intimita di personaggi terribili e fragili,comunque indimenticabili. Come Rackam, il giovane erede di una grande fortunache diverra l'amante di Sugar, e sua moglie, l'angelica e infelice Agnes.

'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. This momentous novel, Faber's first since The Crimson Petal and the White, sees him at his expectation-defying best.

The debut work, a short story collection from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things. Michel Faber's short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. 'Some Rain Must Fall' juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of traumatised schoolchildren with the interior monologue of a teacher/psychologist enlisted to aid their recovery. In the pseudo-sci-fi 'Fish' a mother tries to protect her child in a terrifying world where fish swim through the streets and lurk in alleyways. Faber's collection is rich and assured, with a dazzling reach.

How can you say goodbye to the love of your life? In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic and candid, these poems are an exceptional chronicle of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye. All I can do, in what remains of my brief time, is mention, to whoever cares to listen, that a woman once existed, who was kind and beautiful and brave, and I will not forget how the world was altered, beyond recognition, when we met.

With an introduction by David MitchellIsserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.

Sugar tiene diecinueve años y ejerce la prostitución desde los trece, cuando su madre introdujo a uno de sus clientes en su cama. William Rackham es un caballero de treinta y un años, educado en Oxford, condenado a suceder a su padre en la industria familiar, pero que siempre ha deseado llevar una vida de goces intelectuales. Esta casado con la hermosa Agnes, a la que ama, aunque ella odia el sexo y abomina de la maternidad. Y un dia en que William se siente mas iracundo que nunca, cae en sus manos un folleto donde recomiendan el prostibulo de la señora Castaway, y elogian a su pupila Sugar. La jovencita seduce a William. Y el decide no compartirla con nadie, aunque tenga que optar por la empresa de su padre, y dividirse entre el petalo carmesi y el blanco... Version posmoderna de la novela victoriana, es tambien una apasionante indagacion en el enigma de la femineidad.

Sugar, an alluring, nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the peculiar Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life. And when she is visited by William Rackham the somewhat reluctant heir to Rackham Perfumeries she begins an ascent through the strata of 1870''s London society that offers us intimacy with a host of loveable, maddening and superbly realised characters. Gripping from the first page, this immense novel is an intoxicating and deeply satisfying read not only a wonderful story but the creation of an entire, extraordinary world.