New Releases by Michel Faber

A brilliantly told and beautifully written novel that defies categorization, Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers— so long as they''re well-muscled and alone. But why? As the story unfolds and the reason is made explicit, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world.

Come un felino in agguato, Isserley va in giro sulle strade deserte delle Highlands scozzesi a caccia di autostoppisti maschi. È sola, è bella, è piena di strane ferite nel corpo. È decisamente pericolosa. Che cosa nasconde sotto la pelle? Una storia su come cambiamo, su come restiamo gli stessi, su ciò che fa la differenza.

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.

Siân, troubled by dark dreams and seeking distraction, joins an archaeological dig at Whitby. The abbey''s one hundred and ninety-nine steps link the twenty-first century with the ruins of the past and Siân is swept into a mystery involving a long-hidden murder, a fragile manuscript in a bottle and a cast of most peculiar characters. Equal parts historical thriller, romance and ghost story, this is an ingenious literary page-turner and is completely unforgettable. THIS EDITION ALSO FEATURES MICHEL FABER''S NOVELLA THE COURAGE CONSORT

Deft and lyrical, this paperback edition of Michel Faber''s collection of stories is his first since his auspicious debut, Some Rain Must Fall. It has sealed his reputation as one of Britain''s most daring and original authors. Acclaimed for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber is also celebrated for his mastery of contrasting styles. From achingly sad lost lives, through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness, to biblical innocence and savagery, Faber''s characters are redeemed, abandoned, beloved and laid bare.

Als een Canadese linguïst in Irak een vijfde evangelie geschreven door de bediende van Kajafas ontdekt, genereert de publicatie ervan zowel veel discussie als controverse.

One of the most original and daring writers in English letters, Michel Faber shows his incredible mastery of wildly diverse literary forms with this, his longawaited second collection of stories. Faber''s characters in these 17 fictions are often dislocated--fragile beings confronting moments of fracture--in worlds that are both real and surreal. From the achingly sad lives of "The Safehouse" to the moments of exquisite happiness in "Vanilla- right Like Eminem" to the futuristic savagery of "The Fahrenheit Twins," these are fearless stories that crack our humanity wide open. With his brilliant characterization and pitch-perfect prose, Michel Faber has produced a short story collection that will seal his reputation as one of our most arresting and gifted writers.

In het Londen van 1875 werkt een meisje zich vanuit haar moeders bordeel via een vaste klant op uit de goot.

In this collection, Michel Faber revisits the world of his bestselling novel ''The Crimson Petal and the White'', briefly opening doors onto the lives of its characters to give us tantalising glimpses of where they sprang from and what happened to them.

The bestselling author of "The Crimson Petal and the White" presents this collection of 16 stories that move from unspeakable sadness to moments of exquisitely distilled happiness.

Verhalen over absurde en alledaagse gebeurtenissen.

At the heart of this panoramic, multidimensional narrative is the compelling struggle of a young woman to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. Faber leads us back to 1870s London, where Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for escape to a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society offers us intimacy with a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose ambition is fueled by his lust for Sugar, and whose patronage brings her into proximity to his extended family and milieu: his unhinged, childlike wife, Agnes, who manages to overcome her chronic hysteria to make her appearances during "the Season"; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie, left to the care of minions; his pious brother, Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox, whose efforts on behalf of The Rescue Society lead Henry into ever-more disturbing confrontations with flesh; all this overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions. Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, "The Crimson Petal and the White" is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with characters breathtakingly real. In a class by itself, it''s a big, juicy, must-read of a novel that will delight, enthrall, provoke, and entertain young and old, male and female.

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 sólo 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 cirugía plástica, con gafas que oscurecen y magnifican a la vez sus ojos. Y el segundo, el de su deseo. ¿Qué hace con esos hombres que selecciona con tanto cuidado, esos jóvenes vigorosos, saludables, seducidos por sus pechos? Y así, de misterio en misterio, el lector comienza a sospechar que lsserley puede ser la puerta de entrada a un universo mucho más terrorífico de lo que había imaginado... Michel Faber es un narrador de una habilidad maquiavélica 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 fábula cruel sobre el funcionamiento de las jerarquías de poder en las sociedades fundadas sobre la mercancía y la ganancia.

Michel Faber''s short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber''s radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of the high praise it garnered in the United Kingdom. One surreal story, "Fish," projects a futuristic world populated with fish swimming in the air. As sharks hover in abandoned corners and human zealots of the Church of the Armageddon loose their fanaticism on the innocent, it''s a mother''s full-time job to protect her young daughter. The title story, "Some Rain Must Fall," tells of a substitute schoolteacher called on in a crisis, and as she encourages her pupils to express their feelings, we learn the source of the class''s trouble: a devastating act that resonates with contemporary America. As Garth Morris wrote in the Mail on Sunday (London), "these are well-crafted pieces of quiet forlorn intensity in a very real world."

Een raadselachtige vrouw rijdt elke dag over de Schotse autowegen om goedgebouwde mannelijke lifters op te pikken met een wel heel macaber doel.