Michel Faber

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.

"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. "

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.

'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.

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?

''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.

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.

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

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.

In this novella, an a cappella vocal ensemble is sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In "The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps," a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. In "The Fahrenheit Twins," strange children, identical in all but gender and left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents, create their own ritual civilization.

Enjoy more sugar...Take a saunter down Silver Street once more for an early Christmas encounter with the determined heroine of "The Crimson Petal and the White", and find out more of what became of her. In this collection, Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel, briefly opening doors onto the lives of its characters to give us tantalising glimpses of where they sprang from and what happened to them.

Written by the author of "Some Rain Must Fall", this work is a collection of stories. From achingly sad lost lives, through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness, to biblical innocence and savagery, the author''s characters are redeemed, abandoned, beloved and laid bare.

Hailed as "original and unsettling, an "Animal Farm" for the new century" ("The Wall Street Journal"), this first novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles and listens for clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory-our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion. A grotesque and comical allegory, a surreal representation of contemporary society run amok, Under the Skin has been internationally received as the arrival of an exciting talent, rich and assured.

Sugar tiene diecinueve años, y ejerce la prostitución desde los trece, cuando su perversa madre, que no quería que la niña fuera mejor ni más feliz que ella, 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, aunque tiene aspiraciones vagamente literarias y siempre ha deseado llevar una vida de goces mas refinados e intelectuales que los que le propone su progenitor. Esta casado con la hermosa (y blanca) Agnes, a la que ama, aunque ella odia el sexo y abomina de la maternidad -tiene una pequeña hija a la que ni siquiera soporta ver-, y vive encerrada en un mundo de anorexia y terrores. Y un dia en que William, entre la espada de sus deseos y la pared de su padre, se siente mas iracundo y angustiado que nunca, cae en sus manos un folleto estrictamente para caballeros donde recomiendan el prostibulo de la señora Castaway, y elogian aun mas calurosamente a su pupila Sugar, avida y devota de todos los placeres, que jamas dice que no a nada. Se produce el encuentro, y la jovencita seduce a William con su nada convencional belleza, su cultura, su absoluta disponibilidad. Y el decide no compartirla con nadie, aunque para eso tenga que optar definitivamente por la empresa de su padre, y dividirse entre el petalo carmesi y el blanco...