num_pages: 560
description: This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
language: English
title: Lanark
titlecomplete: Lanark
genres: Classics, British Literature, Fantasy, Dystopia, Novels, Scotland, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 6483
places: Glasgow, Scotland, Unthank
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Book of the Year
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd