by J. G. Ballard · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006545941
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«The Day of Creation» is the novel by J. G. Ballard, published by Flamingo in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In the arid, war-ravaged Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory dreams of discovering a third Nile that would make the Sahara bloom. An excavator unearths a stump and water springs forth, eventually forming a river. Obsessed, he travels upstream in an old ferry, seeking the source of his creation among hostile factions.
This edition belongs to the Flamingo Modern Classic collection; the novel was originally published in 1987.
For readers of contemporary and speculative fiction, particularly those interested in the narrative of J. G. Ballard.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
