The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks · 1984
Literary Fiction · ranked #71 in category
Sixteen-year-old Frank Cauldhame lives with his secretive father on a small Scottish island, tending a private empire of totemic rituals including the Wasp Factory — a device for predicting the future through the deaths of wasps. Banks's debut novel keeps its secrets until a final revelation that reframes everything that has preceded it.
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