Michel Faber

Una fascinante e insólita exploración sobre el mundo de la música y el papel que desempeña en nuestras vidas. Michel Faber, uno de los novelistas más talentosos y singulares de los últimos tiempos, se adentra en el ensayo para escribir el libro que siempre quiso escribir: una obra brillante y exhaustiva sobre como y por que escuchamos musica, y por que escuchamos la musica que escuchamos y no otra. A traves de asuntos como las reacciones electroquimicas que provoca en nuestro cerebro, la dicotomia entre buen y mal gusto, la nocion de cool o los aspectos biologicos y socioculturales que nos determinan, el autor desvela algunos aspectos sorprendentes sobre nuestra relacion con la musica, y nos descubre hasta que punto el acto de escuchar cambia nuestra relacion con el mundo.El resultado es un extraordinario viaje por el sonido en sus multiples facetas. Una apasionada, desmitificadora y accesible reflexion sobre todo aquello relacionado con el acto y el arte musical y el papel que ambos desempeñan en nuestras vidas.

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

Traduit de langlais par Matthieu Dumont et Arthur Lochmann.Le dérèglement climatique met en péril la survie de lhumanité et pousse les hommes à coloniser dautres mondes.Laissant à regret derrière lui

Traduit de langlais par Matthieu Dumont et Arthur Lochmann.Le dérèglement climatique met en péril la survie de lhumanité et pousse les hommes à coloniser dautres mondes.Laissant à regret derrière lui

"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, 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.