Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person.
Read it if you dare!--The Daily Express.
The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.
Meet Frank Cauldhame.
Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.
That's my score to date.
Three.
I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.
It was just a stage I was going through.
Least | Two years after |
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