A Song Of Stone by Iain Banks
Set in a nameless, war-ravaged country, the novel follows an aging aristocratic woman and her companion who shelter in a crumbling country house as civil violence encroaches; their fragile, isolated existence is shattered when a band of brutal fighters arrives, bringing looting, sexual violence, and an unsettling intimacy that forces them to confront mortality, power, the fate of art and memory. Lyrical yet relentlessly bleak, the book probes the collapse of social order, the corrupting effects of violence on bodies and culture, and the strange, shifting bonds that form between captors and captives amid ruin.
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- Published
- 1997
- Nationality
- Scottish
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 224 pages
- Original Language
- English
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