This book grabs you and drags you along on a fantastic trip through a fantasy world. a Man wakes up in a hospital after a nasty accident. The hospital is on this giant bridge, which is a (not entirely unpleasant) dystopian city on its own. Is it real? is he dreaming it all? Is it a sort of afterlife? Will he get back to his original life? Does he really want to?
Banks depicts such vivid scenes, you can almost smell the steel, the wind and the water underneath the bridge. It could easily be made into a majestic film.