Canal Dreams

Zusatztext Short! compact and brilliantly crafted Informationen zum Autor Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory , in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013. Klappentext 'Apocalyptic is the first word that springs to mind to describe this violent and powerful novel in which Banks once again demostrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination . . . impressive' The Times Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmostphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello . . . 'Currents of dark wit swirl through Banks' writing, enriching its buoyancy . . . and, like Graham Greene, he can readily open the reader's senses to the "foreignness" of places' Scotland on SundayIain Banks's classic novel, reissued with a striking new cover Zusammenfassung Iain Banks's classic novel, reissued with a striking new cover

Product details

• Authors: Iain Banks, Iain M. Banks, Banks Iain
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.06.2013
• EAN: 9780349139234
• ISBN: 978-0-349-13923-4
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Adventure fiction