![]() ![]() The only other of her kind to undergo similar surgery to look like Homo sapiens is her direct superior, Esswis. At the same time, she is spiteful of what she considers her deformed body made so for the job. Isserley has an orderly system for appraising vodsel to potentially capture. She takes her job seriously, and considers herself a valuable professional. Gradually, it is revealed she is an alien, originally somewhat equine in form, who has been surgically altered to look like a human woman, thus suffering constant pains. The novel begins with Isserley picking up hitchhikers on the A9 in Scotland. Humans are referred to as Vodsels by the extraterrestrial beings ( voedsel means "food" in Dutch). She drugs them and delivers them to her compatriots, who mutilate and fatten her victims so that they can be turned into meat, as human meat (called voddissin) is a very expensive delicacy on the aliens' barren homeworld. The protagonist is Isserley, an extraterrestrial sent to Earth by a rich corporation on her planet to kidnap unwary hitchhikers. It was later loosely adapted into a 2013 film of the same name directed by Jonathan Glazer. The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Award. Set on the east coast in northern Scotland, it traces an alien who, manifesting in human form, drives around the countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. ![]() ![]() Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. ![]()
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