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"A collection of short fiction captures the diverse worlds of characters at important, unusual, and familiar turning points in their lives, in "The Safehouse," "Andy Comes Back," "The Eyes of the Soul," "Finesse," and twelve other works."
"Deft and lyrical, fearless and human, The Fahrenheit Twins sealed Faber's reputation as one of Britain's most arresting and important authors. Renowned for his pitch-perfect prose and brilliant characterisation, Faber is also celebrated for his mastery of wildly different styles. Within these seventeen stories he levels his gaze at humanity in all its despair, joy and mundanity. From the achingly sad lost lives of 'The Safehouse' through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness in 'Vanilla-Bright Like Eminem' to the biblical innocence and savagery of 'The Fahrenheit twins."@en
"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 long-awaited 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."@en
"In Faber's collection of short stories, techniques range from the hyper-realism of the opening story, with its harrowing portrayal of a man living in a nightmare world of dispossession, to a sly account of the mysterious end of an author who narrates her novels in animal voices. Interior monologues and letters are interspersed with third-person narration. The landscapes are sometimes exotic: the grimly farcical account of a conference speaker's party trick, a lecture on coconut power, is set in Indonesia; a woman doctor is kidnapped to treat a dictator's cancer in an unnamed land that recalls Latin America. In the enigmatic title story, twins face the dilemma of disposing of a loved person's body "at the icy zenith of the world". More often, the stories unfold in familiar places with threatening corners: urban Scotland or small-town England, as in "Flesh Remains Flesh'", about a 19th-century tannery owner obsessed with preservation."

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"Short stories"@en
"Electronic books"@en
"Short stories"
"Electronic books"
"Anglicky psané povídky"
"Short stories in English"
"Humorous fiction"

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"The Fahrenheit Twins"
"Vaniljehvidt som Eminem"@da
"De Fahrenheit-tweeling"
"Fahrenheitova dvojčata"
"Fahrenheit twins"
"The Fahrenheit twins and other stories"
"I gemelli Fahrenheit"
"I gemelli Fahrenheit"@it
"Vanilla bright like Eminem : stories"
"Vanilla bright like Eminem : stories"@en
"The Fahrenheit twins"
"The Fahrenheit twins"@en
"The fahrenheit twins"@it
"The fahrenheit twins"@en
"The fahrenheit twins"
"Bliźnięta Fahrenheit"@pl
"Bliźnięta Fahrenheit"

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