Tag: Michel Faber

D: A Tale of Two Worlds

D: A Tale of Two Worlds

by Michel Faber (Hanover Square Press, 2020); audiobook read by Isabel Adomakoh Young (Penguin Audio, 2020)

Book cover: D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber

D makes an immediate impact combining the narrative voice of an inquisitive outsider with a surreal, allegory-laden core concept. Unfortunately, the transition from one world to another sees a diminishing of both, the story becoming a whimsical quest fantasy without great purpose.

Under the Skin

Under the Skin

dir. Jonathan Glazer (2014)

Glazer_Under the Skin

Stylish, stark, disquieting, yet strangely superficial, this loose adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel is largely art for art’s sake. Scarlet Johansson excels as a vulnerable, predatory alien who while struggling to comprehend the world becomes wilfully subsumed by her own human disguise.