G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Travelling through this gilded land, the doctor tries to resist its strange allure, while a tribe of lepers search for Paradise… But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest.
Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses.įearing this transformation as a herald of the apocalypse, most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Trees are metamorphosed into enormous jewels. Through a 'leaking' of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Finding the roadways blocked, he takes to the river, and embarks on a frightening journey through a strange petrified forest whose area expands daily, affecting not only the physical environment but also its inhabitants.
Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent and imaginative powers, tells the story of a physician specializing in the treatment of leprosy who is invited to a small outpost in the interior of Africa.
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