• Canal Dreams

  • By: Iain Banks
  • Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
  • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Canal Dreams

By: Iain Banks
Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
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Publisher's summary

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmostphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on the cello....

©1989 Iain Banks (P)2013 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Apocalyptic is the first word that springs to mind to describe this violent and powerful novel in which Banks once again demostrates his extraordinary dark powers of imagination...impressive." (The Times)

"This stunning, hallucinatory, semi-surreal fable pits an artistic, precariously balanced sensibility against a world of brutal political forces." (Publishers Weekly)

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