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Iain Banks
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The Bridge
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1992 Страниц: 386 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20091995-02-29
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The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate barbarian storms an enchanted tower under a stream of verbal abuse; and broken men walk forever over bridges without end, taunted by visions of a doomed sexuality. Lying in bed unconscious after an accident wouldn't be much fun, you'd think. Oh yes? It depends who and what you've left behind. Which is the stranger reality, day or night? Frequently hilarious and consistently disturbing, The Bridge is a novel of outrageous contrasts, constructed chaos and elegant absurdities.
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The Business
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2000 Страниц: 393 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092003-04-27
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Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length. To take control, she has to do The Business.
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The Wasp Factory
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2011 Страниц: 244 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20122015-03-26
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Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return — an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks' celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality, imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
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Whit
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1996 Страниц: 455 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 20091998-05-24
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A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag — Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four — yearly Festival of Love — disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon. Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs — Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective.
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 390 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092008-12-20
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Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair, and a multimillion-pound gaming business lie at the heart of this intriguing new novel by the author of «The Player of Games» and «Consider Phlebas.»
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Transition
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2010 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20132011-12-20
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A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible operatives in possession of extraordinary powers? On the Concern's books are Temudjin Oh, an un-killable assassin who journeys between the peaks of Nepal, a version of Victorian London and the dark palaces of Venice; and a nameless, faceless torturer known only as the Philosopher. And then there's the renegade Mrs Mulverhill, who recruits rebels to her side; and Patient 8262, hiding out from a dirty past in a forgotten hospital ward. As these vivid, strange and sensuous worlds circle and collide, the implications of turning traitor to the Concern become horribly apparent, and an unstable universe is set on a dizzying course.
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Canal Dreams
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1990 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20091993-02-19
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By the author of «The Wasp Factory» and «Walking on Glass», this book is set in Japan and on the Panama Canal. It concerns a world famous Japanese cellist, who refuses to fly, and as a result finds herself involved in the ominous realm of global «realpolitik».
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Dead Air
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2003 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092006-09-24
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Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast, people start dropping fruits from a balcony on to a deserted car park below. As they get carried away, dropping more, they're told a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center.
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A Song of Stone
Автор: Iain Banks Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 1998 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092001-02-29
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The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, the troubles are just beginning — armed gangs roam a lawless land and taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep.
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