A caller outside a porn establishment, a ghost in the first minutes of its life, a nun on duty at “suicide rock,” a little god who found Earth in a garbage dump, a young woman and her hand on the last day they spent together, a scientist learning to make rain in the African desert, a group of artists lured away from their native New York and cleverly pranked in the Scottish wilderness, and others—these are the heroes of the debut collection by the English writer Michel Faber.
These fifteen stories are marked by naturalism and psychological authenticity even in the most exotic situations; in them, the author demonstrates his vivid, whimsical, and partly sinister imagination...