Walking on Glass

8 hrs. 50 min.

Language Russian

Author Iain Banks

Narrator Sergey Kirsanov

Description

Steps on glass consist of three parallel storylines devoted to a certain Search. In the first, we meet a student who walks through the entire city to meet his beloved. In the second, the main character is a paranoiac wandering the streets in a construction helmet (it protects him from invisible laser beams) and sawing off the emblems from the hoods of cars at night (which turn out to be weapons aimed at people). In this story steeped in Banks’s signature black humor, the level of “strangeness” keeps rising. And in the third, it’s already off the charts—here, a couple of old people trapped in a strange castle made of books are forced, again and again, to solve puzzles and decipher the same riddle. A bizarre world (the word bizarre fits it best), governed by the laws of Kafkaesque absurdity and the philosophy of doom.