by Michel Faber · Canongate Books Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9781841958385
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«The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories» is Michel Faber's collection of short stories, published by Canongate Books Ltd in hardcover (128 pages, in English).
The volume returns to the Victorian London of «The Crimson Petal and the White» to offer new vignettes of its characters: Sugar, Clara, Mr Bodley, Sophie and others, before and after the events of the novel. Faber builds brief pieces with irony and historical setting that expand the portrait of Silver Street and hint at fates and secrets without revealing the main plot.
Companion work to the novel «The Crimson Petal and the White», first published on September 7, 2006.
For readers of «The Crimson Petal and the White» who want to meet its characters again, as well as for those who discover Faber through short stories.
Michel Faber is a Dutch-born writer of English-language fiction, including his 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White, and Under the Skin (2000) which was adapted for film by Jonathan Glazer, starring Scarlett Johansson. His novel for young adults, D: A Tale of Two Worlds, was published in 2020. His book, Listen: On Music, Sound and Us, a non-fiction work about music, came out in October 2023.
