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Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies whose relationship is daily more fractious; Pris and Haze, once an item, now estranged, and finally Hol - friend, mentor, former lover and the only one who seemed to care. But what will happen to Kit when Guy is gone? And why isn't Kit's mother in the picture? As the friends reunite for Guy's last days, old jealousies, affairs and lies come to light as Kit watches on.

Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him his oldest friends - or at least the friends with the most to lose by his death. Paul - the rising star in the Labour party who dreads the day a tape they all made at university might come to light; Alison and Robbie, corporate bunnies whose relationship is daily more fractious; Pris and Haze, once an item, now estranged, and finally Hol - friend, mentor, former lover and the only one who seemed to care. But what will happen to Kit when Guy is gone? And why isn't Kit's mother in the picture? As the friends reunite for Guy's last days, old jealousies, affairs and lies come to light as Kit watches on.

Iain Bankss 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.

La familia Wopuld amasó su fortuna sobre un juego de mesa llamado ¡Imperio!, el cual es ahora un juego de ordenador de enorme éxito. Tan enorme, que la American Spraint Corp. desea comprar la empresa al completo. El joven renegado Alban, quien ha estado llevando una vida montaraz evitando los tentaculos familiares durante años, es acechado y persuadido para que asista al proximo encuentro, mitad celebracion de cumpleaños y mitad Reunion General Extraordinaria, convocado por Win, la matriarca de los Wopuld y el miembro mas poderoso de la junta.Repleta de su calidez, humanidad y creatividad caracteristicas, esta historia maravillosamente vivida acerca de turbulencias familiares, lealtades comprometidas y pasados ocultos es la novela mas fascinante de Iain Banks desde El puente.

The long-awaited and stunning new novel from the unrivalled Iain Banks - a high-definition, hyper-real apocalyptic fable for our times. Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers.

«Hace años que no mato a nadie, y no pienso volver a hacerlo nunca más. Fue solo una mala racha que estaba pasando.»Esta es la voz de Frank, un adolescente que vive solo con su padre en la costa esco

The Wasp Factory was the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks. It was published in 1984. Written from the first person perspective, it is a narrative told by sixteen-year-old Frank Cauldhame, describing his childhood and all that remains of it. Frank observes many religious rituals of his own invention. As the novel develops, his brother''s escape from a mental hospital and impending return lead on to a violent ending and a twist that undermines all that Frank believed about himself

La familia Wopuld amasó su fortuna sobre un juego de mesa llamado ¡Imperio!, el cual es ahora un juego de ordenador de enorme éxito. Tan enorme, que la American Spraint Corp. desea comprar la empresa al completo. El joven renegado Alban, quien ha estado llevando una vida montaraz evitando los tentaculos familiares durante años, es acechado y persuadido para que asista al proximo encuentro, mitad celebracion de cumpleaños y mitad Reunion General Extraordinaria, convocado por Win, la matriarca de los Wopuld y el miembro mas poderoso de la junta. Repleta de su calidez, humanidad y creatividad caracteristicas, esta historia maravillosamente vivida acerca de turbulencias familiares, lealtades comprometidas y pasados ocultos es la novela mas fascinante de Iain Banks desde El puente.

The long-awaited new novel from 'The most imaginative British novelist of his generation' - THE TIMES 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.

Cheradenine Zakalwe era uno de los agentes más importantes de Circunstancias Especiales, que cambiaba el destino de los planetas según las directrices de la Cultura por medio de conspiraciones, sucias artimañas y acciones militares. Diziet Sma lo habia sacado de la oscuridad y lo habia empujado hacia su actual celebridad, pero a pesar de su relacion, ella no lo conocia tanto como pensaba. El drone conocido como Skaffen-Amtiskaw conocia a ambos. Hace tiempo, habia salvado la vida de la mujer al masacrar a sus atacantes de una manera especialmente sangrienta. Del hombre, pensaba que era un caso perdido. Pero ni siquiera su inteligencia mecanica podia imaginar los horrores en el pasado de Zakalwe. Iain M. Banks esta considerado como uno de los escritores mas innovadores de la narrativa britanica actual. El uso de las armas es la tercera entrega de la saga de 'La Cultura', compuesta por obras de lectura independiente que le han valido el aplauso de la critica.

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* Contemporary - and how! - novel by the most imaginative British novelist of his generation - The Times

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A bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath - one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels.

Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, Iain Bankss classic novel is reissued with a striking new cover

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