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The Drought (The Burning World)

✍ Scribed by J. G. Ballard

Book ID: 109909800
Publisher: Liveright
Year: 2012
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 137 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

An apocalyptic dystopia like no other, one whose "originality and power [of] vision can be felt" (Times Literary Supplement).Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction, where a global drought, brought on by industrial waste, has left mankind in a life-or-death search for water. Violence erupts and insanity reigns as the human race struggles for survival in a worldwide desert of despair.

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