Aspiner factory. Steps on the glass

Ian Banks (1954 - 2013) - a classic of modern English -speaking literature, one of the leading British prose writers of the end of the past - the beginning of the current century, the author of the famous cycle Culture, the famous novels Osinnaya Factory, Voronya Road, Stepsticks on the glass, The bold and bright master of the experiment and a talented postmodernist, aptly nicknamed the English journalists Literary Quentin Tarantino. In 2008, the writer’s name was included in the newspaper The Times in the list of “50 best writers of Great Britain since 1945.”
“The Hide Factory” - a novel that is included, according to Independent, in the list of “100 best books of the twentieth century”. This is the story of the seventeen -year -old Frank Coldheim, or a genius, or a dangerous madman, or a druid by some bizarre and cruel religion. He invented a mechanism to predict the future. He is obsessed with death, freedom and loneliness and is sure that he knows everything about his secluded world. But sooner or later, a disaster should come from the external big world ...
“Glass steps” - a daring experiment on the merger of philosophical fiction, parables and postmodern prose, a kind of “artistic quest”, a journey through hidden quotes and references to the works of Kafka , Borges, Merwin Pika. Three stories that have occurred with completely different people develop into an amazing mosaic of cultural meanings