About the Book

The Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian château to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated Partitum Mutante. But can the piece be performed? Does it matter that its composer is a maniac best known for attacking his wife with a stiletto shoe at the baggage reclaim of Milan airport? Can the five members of the Consort endure their own sexual tensions and wildly differing temperaments? And what is the inhuman voice that calls out to them from the woods at night? The esoteric world of avant-garde classical music is the unlikely setting for a story of rare power—perhaps the most moving Michel Faber has yet written.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443432993
• ISBN 10: 1443432997
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• On Sale: 04/22/2014
• Pages: 232
• List Price:14.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / General

Michel Faber

Biography

MICHEL FABER has written seven other books, including the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-short-listed novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based on characters in The Crimson Petal and the White, was published in 2006. He has also written two novellas and has won several short story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St. James and Macallan. Born in Holland and brought up in Australia, he now lives on the south coast of England.

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  D (A Tale of Two Worlds)

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  The Book Of Strange New Things

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