Bücher von Michel Faber

Michel Faber's first novel in twelve years. Soon to be Amazon original series Oasis in 2017

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."

Der junge Pastor Peter Leigh wird auf die Reise seines Lebens geschickt: Er soll den Einwohnern eines fernen Planeten seinen Glauben näherbringen. Die Mission verlangt von Peter ein enormes Opfer, denn seine Frau Bea muss auf der Erde zurückbleiben und durchlebt dort eine schwierige Zeit. Noch nie in der Geschichte der Menschheit musste eine Liebe eine derart große Distanz überbrücken. Wird es gelingen?

Her triumph will have readers rejoicing' DIANE SETTERFIELD'YA readers will love it, but Faber's brio and bubbly ingenuity will delight adult readers too' DAILY MAIL'In this rather ebullient and lovely new novel by Michel Faber ...

Michel Faber's bestselling blockbuster set in 19th-century London