num_pages: 838
description: One of the most talked-about novels of the year, this international bestseller gives new meaning to the term “unputdownable.” Reviewers and readers everywhere have been eagerly abandoning their everyday lives for days and even weeks on end, refusing to leave Michel Faber’s vividly realized fictional world. They are captivated by Sugar, an enigmatic nineteen-year-old prostitute whose story begins in a hellish nineteenth-century London brothel. Struggling to lift her body and soul out of the gutter, Sugar claws her way up the social ladder to gain refuge in the wealthy family of her besotted lover, William Rackham, unwilling heir to a perfumery. Now in the popular Perennial format, The Crimson Petal and the White is a gripping tale, extraordinarily rich, intricate and intoxicating to the final page.
language: English
title: Crimson Petal And The White
titlecomplete: Crimson Petal And The White
characters: Agnes Rackham, Sophie Rackham, Sugar, Emmeline Fox, Henry Rackham, Caroline (The Crimson Petal and the White), William Rackham
genres: Victorian, Romance, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Historical, Novels, 19th Century
ratings_count: 43105
places: England, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi
publisher: Harper Perennial Canada