The Business - Brossura

Banks, Iain

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349139229 ISBN 13: 9780349139227

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2013

Riassunto

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations.

Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length.

To take control, she has to do The Business.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

* Contemporary - and how! - novel by 'the most imaginative British novelist of his generation' - The Times

L'autore:

Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0349139229
• ISBN 13: 9780349139227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400