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Michel faber was born in the hague, netherlands on april, 1960. Clarke award and won the saltire book of the year award 2015, and most recently undying, his first poetry collection. Hailed as original and unsettling, an animal farm for the new century the wall street journal, this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned. It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. Michel faber hailed as original and unsettling, an animal farm for the new century the wall street journal, this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned.
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