@2@@20@The ninth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. @21@@3@@2@It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.@3@@2@Lededje Y’breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.@3@@2@It begins in the realm of the Real. It begins with a murder.@3@@2@And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.@3@@2@Praise for the Culture series:@3@@2@@20@’Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution‘ @21@@18@Independent on Sunday@19@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@’Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future‘ @21@@18@Guardian@19@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@’Jam-packed with extraordinary invention‘ @21@@18@Scotsman@19@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@’Compulsive reading‘ @21@@18@Sunday Telegraph @19@@3@@2@The Culture series:@16@@18@Consider Phlebas@19@@16@@18@The Player of Games@19@@16@@18@Use of Weapons@19@@16@@18@The State of the Art@19@@16@@18@Excession@19@@16@@18@Inversions@19@@16@@18@Look to Windward@19@@16@@18@Matter@19@@16@@18@Surface Detail@19@@16@@18@The Hydrogen Sonata@19@@3@@2@Other books by Iain M. Banks@20@:@21@@16@@20@@21@@18@Against a Dark Background@19@@16@@18@Feersum Endjinn@19@@16@@18@The Algebraist@19@@3@
ISBN: 978-1-84149-895-9
