{"id":94557,"date":"2024-04-25T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/?post_type=book&#038;p=94557"},"modified":"2024-04-25T00:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:38:47","slug":"the-wasp-factory","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/books\/the-wasp-factory-by-iain-banks","title":{"rendered":"The Wasp Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Wasp Factory\u201d is the debut novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984. Set on a remote Scottish island, it\u2019s narrated by Frank Cauldhame, a psychopathic teenager. Frank\u2019s life revolves around bizarre rituals, weapons, and a mysterious invention called the Wasp Factory. Behind each numeral on its clock face lies a trap leading to ritualistic wasp deaths. As Frank grapples with his past, family secrets, and violence, the novel delves into themes of identity, cruelty, and isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":94567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ep-author":[1271],"ep-series":[],"ep-genres":[204,3581,218,223,230,249],"class_list":["post-94557","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ep-author-iain-banks","ep-genres-classics","ep-genres-contemporary-ebooks","ep-genres-fiction-pdf-books","ep-genres-horror-books","ep-genres-mystery-books","ep-genres-thriller-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/94557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/94557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ep-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ep-author?post=94557"},{"taxonomy":"ep-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ep-series?post=94557"},{"taxonomy":"ep-genres","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdebooks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ep-genres?post=94557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}