Beschreibung
‚Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it’s a novel to get lost in . . . Gripping‘ The Times Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. There is Temudjin Oh, an unkillable assassin who journeys from the high passes of Nepal to a version of Victorian London or a wintry Venice; Adrian Cubbish, restlessly greedy City trader; and the Philosopher, a state-sponsored torturer who moves between the time zones with sinister ease. Transition is a high-definition, hyper-real apocalyptic fable for terrible times. ‚One of Iain Banks’s most imaginative and compelling novels yet. Scotsman
Katia Frey ist Kunsthistorikerin und arbeitet am SNF-Projekt »Flora Ruchat-Roncati«, Departement Architektur der ETH Zürich. Eliana Perotti ist Architektur- und Städtebauhistorikerin und lehrt und forscht am Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur an der ETH Zürich, Leitung des SNF- Projekts »Flora Ruchat-Roncati«. Canterbury Zürich Löwen Deventer Rom New York Paris Dresden Cristina Renzoni, Mailand Chen Ting, Singapur