The Crystal World

The Crystal World

by J. G. Ballard
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 28/06/2012

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From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.


Through a ‘leaking’ of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand.


But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest: a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wielding a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers searching for Paradise.


In this tour de force of the imagination, Ballard transports the reader into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.

ISBN:
9780007374892
9780007374892
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
28-06-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers

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