by Michael Crichton · Mazarine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782863740743
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«Congo» is the science fiction and adventure novel by Michael Crichton, published by Mazarine in paperback (343 pages, in French).
An expedition leaves Houston for Zaire in search of blue diamonds highly valued by the electronics industry. Along with an anthropologist and a gorilla of extraordinary intelligence, the group ventures into the jungle to find a lost civilization, while a fierce struggle for technological dominance decides the fate of the mission.
The original novel was published in 1980; this French edition is from 1981. The work received the 1982 Grinzane Cavour Prize for foreign fiction.
For readers of science fiction, suspense and adventure set in the African jungle.
John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical background.
