Iain M. Banks: A song of stone (1998, Villard)
English language
Published Oct. 8, 1998 by Villard.
What if a European nation collapsed into the kind of chaos we find in failed States.
and did this in Iain Banks wonderful prose.
This is told in high-flown poetic prose, the sort that Banks sometimes descends into during his novels, only this time it's used throughout the length of the piece. You could tick off the characteristic Banks tropes though: the castle (representing the family); the debased aristocrats with odd sexual habits; the peculiar torture scenes.
