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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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Die Wespenfabrik
2011 · Milena
ger
ISBN 9783852862057
242 pages
Wasp Factory
2024 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited
eng
ISBN 9780349147161
Page count not provided
The Wasp Factory (Cult Listening)
September 1998 · Argo
Language not provided
ISBN 9781858496443
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The Wasp Factory
July 20, 1986 · Random House Value Publishing
eng
ISBN 9780517626214
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Eşekarısı Fabrikası
Oct 19, 2015 · Koridor Yayincilik
tur
ISBN 9786054629992
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Wasp Factory
2019 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited
eng
ISBN 9780349142906
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Wasp Factory
2008 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited
eng
ISBN 9780748109951
256 pages
Wasp Factory
1993 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited
eng
ISBN 9780349105352
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Wasp Factory
Mar 01, 1986 · Grand Central Pub
Language not provided
ISBN 9780446340878
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Wasp Factory
2001 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited
eng
ISBN 9784444408943
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Bu feng qi
2009 · Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
chi
ISBN 9789573264750
238 pages
The Wasp Factory
1990 · Abacus
eng
ISBN 9780349139180
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