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The Business de Iain Banks

The Business

Autor Iain Banks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2013

'A poisoned bonbon, a bitter fairy tale' Independent



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.


Praise for Iain Banks:

'The most imaginative novelist of his generation' The Times

'His verve and talent will always be recognised, and his work will always find and enthral new readers' Ken MacLeod, Guardian

'His work was mordant, surreal, and fiercely intelligent' Neil Gaiman

'An exceptional wordsmith' Scotsman
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349139227
ISBN-10: 0349139229
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 141 x 199 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

A poisoned bonbon, a bitter fairy tale... Written with enormous energy, crunchy wit and more curves than an alpine road
A highly inventive piece of work, amusing and sinister by turns... crammed with arresting conceits and surprises... any chapter of The Business, picked at random, will give an idea of Iain Bank's merits: the technical pizzazz, the profound compassion, above all an understanding of the way the world works ripe to confound the average English novelist who thinks that 'science' is simply a noisy irrelevance
It is impressive to find a British writer with such evident range... intellectually exhilarating
Imagination, wit and complexity are Banks' hallmarks and The Business is no exception
Eng. Lit. for the age of www
'Imagination, wit and complexity are Banks' hallmarks and The Business is no exception'
Sunday Express

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church. Financially transparent, internally democratic it 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 to the remote Himalayas. 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 the world at arm's length.

To take control, she has to do The Business.

'Devilishly inventive and inventively devilish'
Sunday Times