Literatura obcojęzyczna Faber & Faber

fascinating and lively history of one of the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed aby his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now,...

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW STATESMAN, THE ECONOMIST & BLOOMBERG BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN & FINANCIAL TIMES SCIENCE BOOK...

In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern...

Now in paperback, this is the million-selling musician Moby's memoir of his life, from suburban poverty and alienation to squalor and success...

Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries,...

As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty...

Hannah Sullivan's debut collection is a revelation - three long poems of fresh ambition, intensity and substance. In Three Poems, readers...

Reissued with a new jacket, to coincide with the publication of }Hand To Mouth{.

Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated aby the reality of...

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long...

All magic comes at a price, but love was never part of the bargain... The look he was giving her. Serilda had never been looked at like...

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal....

A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island aby the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and żeby the personal and critical...

We all know the story of Joan of Arc. A peasant girl who hears voices from God. A warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believes...

The perfect gift for 2020 - the complete screenplays of the acclaimed Emmy-nominated television drama based on Sally Rooney's bestselling...

The acknowledged 'Queen of Crime', P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together motifs of the Golden Age of crime-writing...

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed aby his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the War of Independence. Now,...

First published in 1944. SEE NEW JACKET EDITION (with BERTRAMS ISBN) (020200774x).

A fascinating study of an extraordinary scientist. Paul Dirac was a leading pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics, and was the youngest...

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.

'One of the most gifted and startling writers to have come out of the American South' - V. S. Pritchett. "Wise Blood", Flannery O' Connor's...

Happy Days was written in 1960 and first produced in London at the Royal Court Theatre in November 1962.

After a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of...

Che Guevara's legend is unmatched in the modern world. Since his assassination in 1967 at the age of 39, the Argentine revolutionary has...

Im Jahr 1927 hat der Jahrmarkt im amerikanischen Kansas seine Sensation: den Auftritt des zwölfjährigen Waisenjungen Walter Clairborne Rawley,...

Based on the famous series of dialogues between Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock from the 1960s, the book moves chronologically through...

This is the screenplay to another offbeat movie żeby the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity,...

Contains poems that were written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. In this book, readers...

An authorised and revised edition of a classic text on English, Welsh and classical poetry first published fifty years ago. Incorporates...

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands...

Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances...

'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian...

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, 'Pulp Fiction' exploded on to...

With more than 150 pairs of images and lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world, through his two great passions:...

The new stop-motion film from Wes Anderson. Out on March 23rd, 2018 in the USA. Features voices of Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Bill...

The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation...

An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames,...

A compelling and moving account of a largely ignored but highly significant First World War campaign - the invasion of Austria by Italy...

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this educational edition offers the complete text of the History Boys...

Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse - at the age of three. She was a chronic bedwetter - until she was old enough to drive. She...

Soon to be a major motion picture, Women Talking is a profound, unsettling novel from the award-winning author of Fight Night and All My...

Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America....

When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have gone deaf, and...

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have something in common: some of their best albums...

Twenty-five years since acid house and Ecstasy revolutionized pop culture, Simon Reynolds' landmark rave history. "Energy Flash" has been...

'Completely blew me away.' - Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under 'One of the most dazzling debuts I've ever read.' - Taiye Selasi,...

The sequel in the young adult retelling of Rumpelstiltskin! Serilda and Gild attempt to break the curses that tether their spirits to the...

From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth-century, this book traces the changing...

Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades....

Marking his English language debut, The Park Bench is Chabouté's beautiful and acclaimed story of a park bench and the lives it witnesses....

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and...

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. This title tells...

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between...

Features eleven stories that explore the many facets of growing up - the pain and the heartache, the tenderness and the joy, the fleeting...

From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.

Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for...

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream...

Issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics, publishing in April 2015

A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEMusician and...

'A terrifying and unhappy book...' The Guardian This astounding self-portrait covering the whole of Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) was...

Gordy LaSure's passionate about film. He eats film, he drinks film, and sometimes he'll even watch a film. But most of all he loves talking...

Mary Lennox has grown up in India, surrounded aby colour and life, and people who always do exactly what she wants. When her parents die,...

A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love aby one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers, author of Small Thing Like These.

Features real-life stories of survival, including, a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his ship was torpedoed,...

As he stood up, he suddenly felt aroused żeby Mrs Shaw's large breasts, boy's haircut, and little-girl sneakers. Even her nostrils suggested...

Commander Dalgliesh is recuperating from a life-threatening illness when he receives a call for advice from an elderly friend who works...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is...

The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me aby Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative...

This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully...

The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, "Retromania" explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes,...

Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our...

A screenplay of a film directed żeby Martin Scorsese. From the age of 11, Henry Hill had been part of the criminal life of New York and...

What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United - along...

Mit "Was vom Tage übrigblieb", von James Ivory verfilmt, gewann Kazuo Ishiguro den Booker Price. Der vorliegende Roman handelt von dem berühmten...

As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small incidents of...

This is now a BBC4 series showing in March 2012. When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was...

The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk's celebrated first novel, is the tale of a young Italian scholar captured aby pirates and put up for auction...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms...

Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified aby his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers....

"Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero." --Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and BonkWe like to imagine that medicine...

*Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2022*'A wonderful book.'Peter Frankopan'A masterpiece'Gregory Nagy, Harvard University'Remarkable'Ian...

Peter Straub called Robert Aickman 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories'. Aickman's 'strange stories' (his...

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907. His first full-length collection, Poems, was published żeby T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1930....

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these...

Spanning more than four decades, this is the epic history of Glam Rock, from one of the finest music writers of his generation. Covering...

The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth...

The new blockbuster from Christopher Nolan. Tenet is a global thriller whose action stretches across time zones, and stars Robert Pattinson,...

Subtitled, }The Life & Death Of Rudolph Valentino{ this is the definitive examination of a cinematic icon.

This proved to be fertile ground for a generation of musicians who, from the 1960s onwards, would develop the experimental sounds that became...

Peter Swanson is back - with a chilling and fiendish puzzle of a novel which everyone will be talking about.

This absorbing, ironic, bitter-sweet collection of nine stories marked Lorrie Moore's talented debut. Sharp, cruel and funny, the stories...

The first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front. It sold...

'I have tried to formulate a criterion żeby which good pots may be judged. A pot in order to be good should be a genuine expression of life....

Documenting the lives of Americans and Europeans in Paris in the decadent roaring twenties, this is recognised as a classic.

This is the second in the famous trilogy of novels written aby Samuel Beckett in the late 1940s. An old man is dying in a room. His bowl...

Published in French in 1961, and in English in 1964, 'How It Is" is a novel in three parts, written in short paragraphs, which tell (abruptly,...

A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author

The Unnamable - so named because he knows not who he may be - is from a nameless place. He speaks of previous selves ('all these Murphys,...

Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years...

Issued into the launch list of Faber Modern Classics, publishing in April 2015

A loner, Travis Bickle, takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds...

In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged...

One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed...

Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month,...

Eine Gruppe Teenager experimentiert in Palo Alto mit Lastern und Untugenden aller Art. Ihre Tage sind geprägt von Auseinandersetzungen,...

Whether playing to ten thousand fans in Ibiza's superclubs or in a local pub function room, this DJ's experiences are a cautionary tale...

Hlynur Bjorn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV,...

This is the bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald. A haunting novel about national identity,...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Aby their choice of poems and aby the personal and critical...

Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with...

In his new film, a group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer...

After Will's brother is shot, he knows the next step. Get revenge. So he gets in the lift with a gun. Only when the lift door opens, Buck...

Superbly distinctive and provocative.' - New York TimesAn unnamed writer arrives at an 'artistic dinner' hosted żeby a composer and his...

In 2013, Seamus Heaney met with Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis in Dublin. He said that one project he would very much like to complete...

Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme...

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker,...

As every fan of the much-loved travel writer Lawrence Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean,...