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Banks I. M., Canal dreams — 2003

The plot is fairly simple. In the first half, when the ship is stranded but unharmed, the mood is bucolic and philosophical, and the main challenge Hisako has is to pass the time in a tropical lake. She has an affair with one of the ship's officers and they go scuba diving together. She practises the cello. She is worried about the future, and has violent nightmares and flashbacks to her early life in Japan. She also spends time with the other passengers, among them a South African engineer and an erudite Egyptian. In the much darker second half, the book becomes an almost Die Hard-like thriller. Guerrillas (who turn out to be agents provocateur) take over the ship. The rebels kill everybody aboard except Hisako and rape her. She avenges herself, killing the pirates. The violence of the rebel takeover and of Hisako's revenge is described very graphically

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Áýíêñ È., Øàãè ïî ñòåêëó. ðîìàí — 2010 (Pocket book)

Íåóäà÷íèê, êîòîðûé õîäèò âñå âðåìÿ â êàñêå íà ãîëîâå è ìîëîäîé áåçíàäåæíî âëþáëåííûé ÷åëîâåê. ×òî ìîæåò îáüåäèíÿòü ýòèõ ñîâåðøåííî ðàçíûõ ëþäåé? Îòâåòèòü íà ýòîò âîïðîñ ìîæíî, òîëüêî ïðî÷èòàâ ýòî ïðîèçâåäåíèå ñ âåëèêîëåïíîé êîíöîâêîé!

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Stewart A., Arrows of Eros — 1989

The scope of this collection of stories ranges from the mega-violence of Kim Newman to Stephen Gallagher's literary horror story, from the surreal nightmare landscapes of Simon Ounsley's "Growing Place" to the plain bizzare in the curious shape of "The Amorous Adventures of Hogfoot Right".

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Banks I., Whit or Isis Amongst The Unsaved — 2007

A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing. Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four- yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon. Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs - Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective

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Banks I., The Wasp Factory — 2005

By the author of "Canal Dreams" and "Walking on Glass", this is the story of Frank, an unconventional 16 year-old. Frank has already killed three people, but was it just a stage he was going through? 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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