DROUGHT

'The world, without rain, is drying up. Rivers are a trickle and we see theshrivelling of the species far from its sources and headed lemming-like forthe sea. Time has burst its dams and seeps inside the race-structure withbizarre results A strange and rather wonderful book full of hauntinglandscapes, phantasmagoria and disaster that clangs on the mind. Animpressive novel at any level. Its obscurities and surrealist flourishesonly heighten the dreamlike atmosphere.' Guardian