![]() ![]() The book tells a story that stands at the boundary of the fantastic, centred on Frank, a character that lives in a boy’s dream of weapons and secret ceremonies and auguries, alone with his dysfunctional father. ![]() I had, after all, accounted for two male children and thus done womankind something of a statistical favour.” “I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. After reading it, I feel sorry for not having read this book earlier, like when it appeared in 1984!, as I definitely consider The Wasp Factory a masterpiece, a standalone novel that establishes Ian Banks’s stand as a great writer (and which understandably launched Banks’ carrier). Following Ian Banks’ death two months ago, I decided to buy his first published novel, The Wasp Factory. ![]()
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