The day of creation - J. G Ballard

An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes - one of his most acclaimed novels, now reissued in a stunning new cover style.

In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for water, an ancient tree stump is uprooted by a bulldozer and water wells up, spreading until it becomes an enormous river. With the once arid land now abounding in birds and beasts, the obsessed Mallory forges up-river in an old car ferry, clashing with hostile factions as he tries to find the source of his own creation.