by Michel Faber · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841954318
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«The Crimson Petal and the White» is the historical novel by Michel Faber, published by Canongate Books in paperback (894 pages, in English).
London, 1870s. Sugar, a young prostitute, longs to leave Mrs Castaway's brothel and rise in an unequal society. Her encounter with William Rackham, a perfume magnate, brings her close to the secrets of a wealthy family, in a story about desire, gender and the contradictions of the Victorian era.
This edition was published in September 2003. The work was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2003 and won the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize in 2010.
It is a read for adults fond of historical and literary fiction, with meticulous setting in Victorian London.
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.
