Michel Faber Libri

Una macchina percorre più volte al giorno una statale deserta nelle Highlands scozzesi. Alla guida c'è 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 è 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 città e che il suo popolo usa come cibo. I Vodsel siamo noi.

Nella Londra del 1875, Sugar, una prostituta di diciannove anni, la più desiderata in città, cerca la via per sottrarre il proprio corpo e l'anima al fango delle strade. Dai vicoli luridi e malfamati, Michel Faber ci guida seguendo la scalata di Sugar, fino allo splendore delle classi alte della società vittoriana, dove violiamo l'intimità di personaggi terribili e fragili, comunque indimenticabili. Come Rackam, il giovane erede di una grande fortuna che diverrà l'amante di Sugar, e sua moglie, l'angelica e infelice Agnes.

Bezdomny, detektyw sklepowy, matka mordująca własne dziecko, gej dojrzewający do ojcostwa, autorka wchodząca w skomplikowane relacje ze swoimi bohaterami, w siedemnastu opowieściach, porównywanych z dokonaniami Josepha Conrada, W. Somerseta Maughama czy Iana McEwana, smutek miesza się ze szczęściem, szczerość z ironią, niewinność z perwersją, język biblijny z żywą mową współczesności. Zbiór opowiadań Bliźnięta Fahrenheit, wydany po siedmiu latach od debiutanckiego tomu Some Rain Must Fall, ugruntował pozycję Michela Fabera jako jednego z najważniejszych współczesnych pisarzy brytyjskich. Znany z absolutnego słuchu oraz wnikliwych portretów psychologicznych, autor udowadnia, że potrafi także umiejętnie korzystać z różnorodnych stylów literackich i nadawać swoim tekstom odmienne tonacje uczuciowe. Zbiór ukazał się również w wersji udźwiękowionej, z muzyką skomponowaną specjalnie na potrzeby tego projektu przez legendarnego brytyjskiego twórcę Briana Eno.

Beautiful and deeply moving . . . a story of courage and the persistence of hope even in the darkest times Allan Massie Scotsman

An acclaimed collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White

Find out what became of Sophie.Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel The Crimson Petal and the White, conjuring tantalising glimpses of its characters, their lives before we first met them and their intriguing futures. You'll be desperate for more by the time you reluctantly re-emerge into the twenty-first century.

In the author's first collection of short stories, the lead title is a tale of traumatised children and the internal world of the psychologist enlisted to help them. "Fish" reads almost like science fiction, in its story of a mother protecting her child from a school of terrifying fish.

'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.AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4

When Theo Griepenkerl happens upon the fifth Gospel in a war-torn Iraqi museum, he can't believe his luck. Driven by greed and a lust for fame, he capitalises on his find by publishing it. His book is a sensation. But he can hardly imagine the incendiary consequences his discovery will have for Christians, Arabs, homicidal maniacs and Amazon customers alike.The Fire Gospel is a brilliant piece of storytelling, dazzlingly outrageous and utterly gripping.